Trope Explained

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

Politics

• Trope (politics), the use of narratives for political purposes

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

• • TV Tropes, a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works