trope | BabelNet

ENtropeNoun

Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

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A stock character, also known as a character archetype, is a type of character in a narrative whom audiences recognize across many narratives or as part of a storytelling tradition or convention.

stock character

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A trope or tropus may refer to a variety of different concepts in medieval, 20th-, and 21st-century music.

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Trope denotes figurative and metaphorical language and one which has been used in various technical senses.

trope theory

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In cinema, a trope is what The Art Direction Handbook for Film defines as "a universally identified image imbued with several layers of contextual meaning creating a new visual metaphor".

film/tv trope

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In Judaism, trope is the musical pronunciation associated with the cantillation marks used for the ritual chanting of the Torah.

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In geometry, trope is an archaic term for a singular tangent space of a variety, often a quartic surface.

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ENtropeVerb

To think or write in terms of tropes.

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To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.

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To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.

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To use, or embellish something with, a trope.

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To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.

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Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.

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