Trope

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The present page holds the title of a primary topic, and an article needs to be written about it. It is believed to qualify as a broad-concept article. It may be written directly at this page or drafted elsewhere and then moved to this title. Related titles should be described in Trope, while unrelated titles should be moved to Trope (disambiguation). (August 2023)

Trope or tropes may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

• Trope (cinema), a cinematic convention for conveying a concept
• Trope (literature), a figure of speech or common literary device
• Trope (music), any of a variety of different things in medieval and modern music
• Fantasy tropes, elements of the fantasy genre

Philosophy and religion

• Trope (philosophy), figurative and metaphorical language and various other technical senses
  • Tropes, qualities or properties in formal ontology in philosophy
• Trope, a musical motif associated with cantillation, chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible

Science and technology

• Trope (mathematics), an archaic geometry term for a tangent line or plane
• Tropidophiidae or tropes, a dwarf boa
• Tropes, part of the desktop search engine software Tropes Zoom

People

• Michael Trope (born 1951), American trial lawyer and former sports agent

See also

• All pages with titles containing Trope
• TV Tropes, a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works

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