Definitions for tropes

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tropes trope

Spelling: [trohp]

IPA: /troʊp/

Tropes is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 190 anagrams from letters in tropes (eoprst).

Definitions for tropes

noun

1. Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
2. a phrase, sentence, or verse formerly interpolated in a liturgical text to amplify or embellish.
3. (in the philosophy of Santayana) the principle of organization according to which matter moves to form an object during the various stages of its existence.

Origin of tropes

1525-35; Latin tropus figure in rhetoric Greek trópos turn, turning, turn or figure of speech, akin to trépein to turn

Examples for tropes

I hope that its success encourages others to look beyond the tired “doofus dad” tropes.

tropes and Fictions are raised, as it were, upon the Foundation of right Reason.

He went to his imagination for his facts, and to his memory for his tropes.

This is the effect on us of tropes, fables, oracles, and all poetic forms.

The common sense of our tropes, rodomontades, and allegories is this!

But in the end, White's music doesn't just recycle these tropes—it transcends them.

But as with any show that was created in the 1940s, some of its tropes could be deemed politically incorrect or offensive today.

Northanger Abbey, after all, parodies the tropes and excesses of sentimental Gothic novels.

Perhaps skilled in the art of metaphors and tropes (ilmul-bad).

It takes these tropes that we, as a culture, seem to love and spins them on their heads.