Trope
A trope in its original sense is any instance of figurative (non-literal) language, such as a metaphor, hyperbole, or personification. It has also broadened to mean any common idea, phrase, image, artistic technique, artistic element, or cliché.
Arts, literature, and communication
[edit source]- Literary device, any intentional or special use of language
- Narrative device, any intentional technique for conveying a story
- Plot device, any technique that drives a story's plot forward
- Motif (narrative), any recurring element within one particular story
- Fantasy trope, any common element across works of the fantasy genre
- Trope (cinema), any common cinematic convention
- Trope (music), an addition to a piece of medieval music
- Trope (politics), the common use of a particular biased narrative or message for political purposes
Philosophy and religion
[edit source]- Trope (philosophy), any of various technical terms in philosophy
- Hebrew cantillation, trope, or trop, the chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible
Science and technology
[edit source]- Trope (mathematics), an archaic geometry term for a tangent line or plane
- Tropidophiidae, or tropes, a family of dwarf boa snakes
- Tropes Zoom, a desktop search-engine software
People
[edit source]- Michael Trope (born 1951), American trial lawyer and former sports agent
See also
[edit source]- All pages with titles containing Trope
- TV Tropes, a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works
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