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Trope vs Tropological - What's the difference?

trope | tropological |

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.

As a verb trope

is to use, or embellish something with a trope.

As an adjective tropological is

relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story.

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

    (trop)
  • 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

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)

    References

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    External links

    * * * * TV Tropes Site with numerous current examples of tropes.

    Anagrams

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    tropological

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Relating to or involving the interpretation of literature focusing on the ethical lesson or moral of the story.
  • *2001 , William Royall Newman & Anthony Grafton, Secrets of Nature: Astrology and Alchemy in Early Modern Europe , ISBN 0262140756, p. 27.
  • *:Even the widely revered description of alchemy as terrestrial astronomy was a tropological association, comparing one discipline to the other rather than using the tools of the former in the operation of the latter.
  • Characterized by tropes; varied by tropes; tropical.
    • (Burton)

    Derived terms

    * tropologically