trope

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.

   “They have completely supported the Russians diplomatically, they’ve abstained in key votes at the United Nations, they’ve absolutely cynically repeated all the Russian tropes, particularly in places like Africa and Latin America – [by]^([sic]) blaming Nato and all of this stuff.”

2. isim An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.

   “Usually known as 'tropes,' these interpolations consisted at first of but a few words; those of the Introit at the beginning of Mass on great festivals, however, often took the form of dialogues.”

3. isim A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.

   “Since the tories have thus disappointed my hopes, / And will neither regard my figures nor tropes; I'll speech against peace while Dismal's my name, / And be a true whig, while I'm Not-in-game.”

4. isim A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
5. isim The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
6. isim A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.

   “Is not the trope of muſic, to avoid or ſlide from the cloſe or cadence, common with the trope of rhetoric, of deceiving expectation? Is not the delight of the quavering upon a ſtop in muſic, the ſame with the playing of light upon the water?”

7. isim A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
8. isim A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
9. isim Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
10. isim A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
11. fiil To use, or embellish something with, a trope.

    “The specific outcome of that 'story-telling' largely derives from how managers 'figure' their world – how they trope or 'figuratively turn' meanings. So, management decision(s) making is about figurative synthesis – troping literal meaning – as much as it might be analysis.”

12. fiil To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.

    “"So clomb this first grand Thief into God's Fold" (4.192), [John] Milton writes, thus troping Satan's transgression as neither deception, seduction, nor disobedience, though he presents it in those terms elsewhere, but rather as robbery.”

13. fiil To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.

    “I troped the World Wide Web as an especially dangerous research venue. "Don't pick up anything unless you know where it has been," I said.”

14. fiil To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.
15. fiil To think or write in terms of tropes.