Stereotype vs Trope - What's the difference?
stereotype | trope |
A conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or image.
(printing) A metal printing plate cast from a matrix moulded from a raised printing surface.
(psychology) A person who is regarded as embodying or conforming to a set image or type.
(UML) An extensibility mechanism of the Unified Modeling Language
To make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype.
To prepare for printing in stereotype; to produce stereotype plates of.
To print from a stereotype.
(figurative) To make firm or permanent; to fix.
* Duke of Argyll (1887)
(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 nouns the difference between stereotype and trope
is that stereotype is a conventional, formulaic, and oversimplified conception, opinion, or while trope is 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.As verbs the difference between stereotype and trope
is that stereotype is to make a stereotype of someone or something, or characterize someone by a stereotype while trope is to use, or embellish something with a trope.stereotype
English
(wikipedia stereotype)Noun
(en noun)Verb
(stereotyp)- to stereotype the Bible
- Powerful causes tending to stereotype and aggravate the poverty of old conditions.
See also
* stereotypic * stereotypical ----trope
English
Noun
(wikipedia trope) (en noun)Derived terms
* troper * tropist * tropical * tropologyVerb
(trop)Synonyms
* tropifyReferences
*External links
* * * *TV TropesSite with numerous current examples of tropes.