Conceit vs Trope - What's the difference?
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As nouns the difference between conceit and trope is that conceit is (obsolete) something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought while 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. As verbs the difference between conceit and trope is that conceit is (obsolete) to form an idea; to think while trope is to use, or embellish something with a trope.
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Noun
(obsolete) Something conceived in the mind; an idea, a thought.
* Francis Bacon
- In laughing, there ever procedeth a conceit of somewhat ridiculous.
* Bible, Proverbs xxvi. 12
- a man wise in his own conceit
The faculty of conceiving ideas; mental faculty; apprehension.
- a man of quick conceit
* Sir Philip Sidney
- How often, alas! did her eyes say unto me that they loved! and yet I, not looking for such a matter, had not my conceit open to understand them.
Quickness of apprehension; active imagination; lively fancy.
* Shakespeare
- His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there is no more conceit in him than is in a mallet.
(obsolete) Opinion, (neutral) judgment.
* 1499 , (John Skelton), The Bowge of Courte :
- By him that me boughte, than quod Dysdayne, / I wonder sore he is in suche cenceyte .
(countable) A novel or fanciful idea; a whim.
* L'Estrange
- On his way to the gibbet, a freak took him in the head to go off with a conceit .
* Alexander Pope
- Some to conceit alone their works confine, / And glittering thoughts struck out at every line.
* Dryden
- Tasso is full of conceits which are not only below the dignity of heroic verse but contrary to its nature.
(countable, rhetoric, literature) An ingenious expression or metaphorical idea, especially in extended form or used as a literary or rhetorical device.
(uncountable) Overly high self-esteem; vain pride; hubris.
* Cotton
- Plumed with conceit he calls aloud.
Design; pattern.
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Derived terms
* conceited
* conceitedly
* conceitedness
* self-conceit
Verb
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(obsolete) To form an idea; to think.
* 1643 : , The Doctrine and Discipline of Divorce
- Those whose vulgar apprehensions conceit but low of matrimonial purposes.
(obsolete) To conceive.
* South
- The strong, by conceiting themselves weak, are therebly rendered as inactive as if they really were so.
* Shakespeare
- One of two bad ways you must conceit me, / Either a coward or a flatterer.
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trope English
Noun
( wikipedia trope)
( en noun)
(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.
Derived terms
* troper
* tropist
* tropical
* tropology
Verb
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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.
Synonyms
* tropify
Related terms
* tropable
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* TV Tropes Site with numerous current examples of tropes.
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