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tropology
English
Etymology
From Late Latin tropologia, from Late Greek ?????????? (tropología), equivalent to trope + -ology.
Noun
tropology (countable and uncountable, plural tropologies)
- (rhetoric) The use of a trope (metaphor or figure of speech).
- 1998, Allen Mitchie, Between Calvin and Calvino: Postmodernism and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Greg Clingham (editor), Questioning History: The Postmodern Turn to the Eighteenth Century, page 54,
- But she is not right to claim this is because "rhetoric" must necessarily be "in the Nietzschean sense that all language is founded in tropology."37 Since when has tropology been in conflict with theology? Tropology and rhetoric thrive in the works of both Calvin and Calvino, and tropology is the very lifeblood of The Pilgrim's Progress.
- 1998, Allen Mitchie, Between Calvin and Calvino: Postmodernism and Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress, Greg Clingham (editor), Questioning History: The Postmodern Turn to the Eighteenth Century, page 54,
- (theology, philosophy) The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.
- 2009, Frank Ankersmit, 2: White's "New Neo-Kantianism": Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics, Frank Ankersmit, Ewa Domanska, Hans Kellner (editors), Re-Figuring Hayden White, page 37,
- A similar story can be told for White's tropology. Tropology also is something that “the mind brings” to (past) reality and that is not part of the past itself.
- 2009, Frank Ankersmit, 2: White's "New Neo-Kantianism": Aesthetics, Ethics and Politics, Frank Ankersmit, Ewa Domanska, Hans Kellner (editors), Re-Figuring Hayden White, page 37,
- A recurring motif or metaphor, a trope; an interplay of tropes.
- 1994, Lee Edelman, preface, Homographesis, hardcover edition, page xiv,
- These essays, in other words, endeavor to read the literary, cultural, and political implications of the tropologies of sexuality that are put into play once the field of sexuality becomes charged by the widespread availability of a "homosexual" identity, and they explore the determining relation between "homosexuality" and "identity" as both have been constructed in modern Euro-American societies.
- 1994, Lee Edelman, preface, Homographesis, hardcover edition, page xiv,
Usage notes
The countable interpretation of the sense the use of a trope is an instance of something being used as a trope, which is indistinguishable from trope.
Related terms
- trope
- tropologic
- tropological
See also
- allegory
- anagogy
- exegesis
- hermeneutics
Anagrams
- protology
tropology From the web:
trope
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)
- (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.
- (medieval Christianity) An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
- (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;
- 1711, Jonathan Swift, An Excellent New Song
- (geometry) Mathematical senses.
- A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
- (archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface.
- A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
- (music) Musical senses.
- A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
- A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
- (Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
- A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
- (philosophy) Philosophical senses.
- (Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
- (metaphysics) A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
- (Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
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)
- (transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
- (transitive) Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.
- To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
- To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
- To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.
- To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
- (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)
- (music, literature, linguistics) trope
Further reading
- “trope” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Latin
Noun
trope
- vocative singular of tropus
Norwegian Bokmål
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ?????? (trópos)
Noun
trope m (definite singular tropen, indefinite plural troper, definite plural tropene)
- tropics (usually the definite plural tropene, but trope is used in compound words)
- 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)
- tropics (usually the definite plural tropane, but trope is used in compound words)
- a trope (in literature, rhetoric)
Derived terms
- tropeklima
References
- “trope” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.
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