Trope
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Trope or tropes may refer to:
People[edit]
- Michael Trope (born 1951), American trial lawyer and former sports agent
Concepts in multiple fields[edit]
Art, entertainment, and media[edit]
- Trope (literature):
- the use of figurative language in literature
- a commonly recurring literary or rhetorical device, motif, or cliché
- Trope (music), a variety of different things in medieval and modern music
- Fantasy tropes and conventions, elements of the fantasy genre
Mathematics[edit]
- Trope (mathematics), an archaic geometry term for a tangent line or plane
Philosophy[edit]
- Trope (philosophy), figurative and metaphorical language and various other technical senses
- Tropes, qualities or properties in formal ontology (philosophy)
Religion[edit]
- Trope (religion), a musical embellishment of texts
- Trope or cantillation, the ritual chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible in synagogue services
Rhetoric[edit]
- Trope of Litotes, a rhetorical method of denying a negation
Computing and technology[edit]
- Tropes Zoom, a desktop search engine
- TV Tropes, a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works
See also[edit]
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