Trope

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Trope (from Greek τρόπος - tropos, "turn") may refer to:

• Trope (linguistics), a rhetorical figure of speech that consists of a play on words
• Trope (literature) or Literary trope, a common theme used in storytelling.
• Trope (mathematics) An archaic term for a singular tangent plane of a surface.
• Trope (philosophy)
• Trope (music)
  • Medieval music
  • 20th century music
• Trope is an American Yiddish dialectical form of the standard Yiddish term trop. See Cantillation (Yiddish: טראָפ).

[edit] See also

• Framing (social sciences)
• Meme
• Archetype
• Pattern (architecture)
• TV Tropes

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