Trope vs Catachresis - What's the difference?
trope | catachresis |
(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.
A misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.
(rhetoric) A misapplication or overextension of figurative or analogical description; a wrongly-applied metaphor or trope.
English words prefixed with cata-
As nouns the difference between trope and catachresis
is that 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 while catachresis is a misuse of a word; an application of a term to something which it does not properly denote.As a verb trope
is to use, or embellish something with a trope.trope
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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.
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(wikipedia catachresis)Alternative forms
Variant spellings''“?catachresis]” listed in the ''Oxford English Dictionary[2nd Ed.; 1989 catechresis