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n. A figure of speech using words in nonliteral ways, such as a metaphor.

n. A word or phrase interpolated as an embellishment in the sung parts of certain medieval liturgies.

n. Something recurring across a genre or type of literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales. Similar to archetype and cliché but not necessarily pejorative.

n. A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.

n. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.

n. A phrase or verse added to the mass when sung by a choir.

n. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.

n. A cantillation.

v. To use, or embellish something with a trope.

n. The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.

n. The word or expression so used.

n. In rhetoric, a figurative use of a word; a word or expression used in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it, or a word changed from its original signification to another for the sake of giving spirit or emphasis to an idea, as when we call a stupid fellow an ass, or a shrewd man a fox.

n. In Gregorian music, a short cadence or closing formula by which particular melodies are distinguished. Also called differentia and distinctio.

n. In liturgics, a phrase, sentence, or verse occasionally accompanying or interpolated in the introit, Kyrie, Gloria in Excelsis, Sanctus, and Agnus Dei in different parts of the Western Church. Since the sixteenth century tropes have no longer been used.

n. A geometrical singularity, the reciprocal of a node.

n. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

"While we doubt that use of the term trope has actually scared off would-be adherents of trope-theory, it cannot hurt to have an accurate, suggestive, single descriptive expression for tropes of given degrees."

rhetorical device   

exaggeration    personification    oxymoron    kenning    zeugma    metaphor    prosopopoeia    hyperbole    synecdoche    irony   

tropology    tropical   

everyche    cattel    munster    hyperbole    hystorie    cliché    mountayne    swefte    dothe    okoa