Embellish vs Trope - What's the difference?
embellish | trope |
To make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate.
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To make something sound or look better or more acceptable than it is in reality, to distort.
(literature) 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 but not necessarily pejorative.
A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
(music) A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
(music) A phrase or verse added to the mass when sung by a choir.
(music) A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
(Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or the mark that represents it.
To use, or embellish something with a trope.
(often, literature) To turn into, coin or create a new trope.
(often, literature) To analyze a work in terms of its literary tropes.
To think or write in terms of tropes.
As verbs the difference between embellish and trope
is that embellish is to make more beautiful and attractive; to decorate while trope is to use, or embellish something with a trope.As a noun trope is
(literature) 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 but not necessarily pejorative.embellish
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Verb
(es)- The old book cover was embellished with golden letters
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- to embellish a story, the truth
Synonyms
* adorn * beautify * decorate * deck * grace * ornament * prettify * See alsotrope
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Noun
(wikipedia trope) (en noun)Derived terms
* troper * tropist * tropical * tropologyVerb
(trop)Synonyms
* tropifyReferences
*External links
* * * *TV TropesSite with numerous current examples of tropes.