different between synecdoche vs trope

English

Alternative forms

• syndoche
• synechdoche

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin synecdoch?, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sunekdokh?, “receiving together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??n?k.d?.ki/, /s??n?k.do?.ki/

Noun

synecdoche (countable and uncountable, plural synecdoches)

1. (rhetoric) A figure of speech that uses the name of a part of something to represent the whole, or the whole to represent a part.

   Hyponyms: pars pro toto, totum pro parte

   Hypernym: metonymy

   • 2002, Christopher Hitchens, "Martin Amis: Lightness at Midnight", The Atlantic, Sep 2002:

     "Holocaust" can become a tired synecdoche for war crimes in general.
2. (rhetoric) The use of this figure of speech.

   Synonym: synecdochy

Usage notes

Technically, a synecdoche is a part of the referent while a metonym is connected or associated but not necessarily a part of it.

Derived terms

Related terms

• docetism
• meronymy

Translations

See also

• metaphor
• metonymy

Further reading

• synecdoche on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Dutch

Etymology

From Latin synecdoche, from Ancient Greek ????????? (sunekdokh?, “receiving together”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /sin?k?do?x?/

Noun

synecdoche f (plural synecdoches, diminutive synecdochetje n)

1. (literature) synecdoche

See also

• metonymia

English

Etymology

From Latin tropus, from Ancient Greek ?????? (trópos, “a manner, style, turn, way; a trope or figure of speech; a mode in music; a mode or mood in logic”), related to ????? (trop?, “solstice; trope; turn”) and ??????? (trépein, “to turn”); compare turn of phrase. The verb is derived from the noun.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /t???p/, [t????p]
• (General American) enPR: tr?p, IPA^(key): /t?o?p/
• Rhymes: -??p

Noun

trope (plural tropes)

1. (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.
2. (medieval Christianity) An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
3. (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
   • 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song

     Since the tories have thus disappointed my hopes, / And will neither regard my figures nor tropes;
4. (geometry) Mathematical senses.
   1. A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
   2. (archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
5. (music) Musical senses.
   1. A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
   2. A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
   3. (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
6. (philosophy) Philosophical senses.
   1. (Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
   2. (metaphysics) A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.

Usage notes

In the art or literature sense, the word trope is similar to archetype and cliché, but is not necessarily pejorative.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

trope (third-person singular simple present tropes, present participle troping, simple past and past participle troped)

1. (transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
2. (transitive) Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.
   1. To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
   2. To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
   3. To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.
3. (intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes.

Synonyms

• tropify

Derived terms

• tropable

Translations

Related terms

Further reading

• trope on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (cinema) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (literature) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (mathematics) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (music) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (philosophy) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope (religion) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• trope in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• trope at OneLook Dictionary Search
• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “trope”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN
• trope in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Anagrams

• Perot, Petro, Porte, opter, petro, petro-, ptero-, repot, tepor, toper

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /t??p/

Noun

trope m (plural tropes)

1. (music, literature, linguistics) trope

Further reading

• “trope” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Noun

trope

1. vocative singular of tropus

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (trópos)

Noun

trope m (definite singular tropen, indefinite plural troper, definite plural tropene)

1. tropics (usually the definite plural tropene, but trope is used in compound words)
2. a trope (in literature, rhetoric)

Derived terms

• tropeklima

References

• “trope” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “trope_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “trope_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ?????? (trópos)

Noun

trope m (definite singular tropen, indefinite plural tropar, definite plural tropane)

1. tropics (usually the definite plural tropane, but trope is used in compound words)
2. a trope (in literature, rhetoric)

Derived terms

• tropeklima

References

• “trope” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.