Convention vs Trope - What's the difference?
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A meeting or gathering.
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A formal deliberative assembly of mandated delegates
The convening of a formal meeting
A formal agreement, contract or pact
(international law) A treaty or supplement to such.
A generally accepted principle, method or behaviour.
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(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 convention and trope
is that convention is a meeting or gathering 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 a verb trope is
to use, or embellish something with a trope.convention
English
(wikipedia convention)Noun
(en noun)- The convention was held in Geneva.
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- ''The EU installed an inter-institutional Convention to draft a European constitution
- ''The Vienna convention at the Vienna Congress (1814-15) standardized most of diplomatic conduct for generations
- In order to account for this, we might propose to make the Prepositional Phrase an optional constituent of the Verb Phrase: this we could do by re-
placing rule (28) (ii) by rule (40) below:
(40) VP → V AP (PP)
(Note that a constituent in parentheses is, by convention , taken to be
optional.)
- ''Table seatings are generally determined by tacit convention , not binding formal protocol
- The convention of driving on the right is reinforced by law.
Derived terms
* by convention * coding conventions * conventional, conventionally * conventionalize * conventioneer * convention centre, convention center * naming convention * pictorial convention * trade conventiontrope
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.