Trope

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Trope or tropes may refer to:

People

• Michael Trope (born 1951), American trial lawyer and former sports agent

Concepts in multiple fields

Art, entertainment, and media

• 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

• Trope (mathematics), an archaic geometry term for a tangent line or plane

Philosophy

• Trope (philosophy), figurative and metaphorical language and various other technical senses
• Tropes, qualities or properties in formal ontology (philosophy)

Religion

• Trope (religion), a musical embellishment of texts
• Trope or cantillation, the ritual chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible in synagogue services

Rhetoric

• Trope of Litotes, a rhetorical method of denying a negation

Computing and technology

• Tropes Zoom, a desktop search engine
• TV Tropes, a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works

See also

• All pages with titles containing Trope
• Meme