Word Finder - trope

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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.

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

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Mathematical senses.

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Musical senses.

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Philosophical senses.

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To use, or embellish something with, a trope.

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Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.

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To think or write in terms of tropes.

Of course, the car chase is a standard trope of the Hollywood film, never the traffic jam.

Moving from vampires to aliens, she turns the trope of "aliens among us" into interesting scifi through her skill at bringing the characters to life and making the reader care.

Scientists and physicians saw nudism not as a return to Eden (although this trope certainly occurred in nudist writing), but as a path forward to a shining new modernity in which science, rather than superstition, would lead the way.

This is a poetic way of thinking about it, via the poetic trope of personification.

The alien invasion trope includes occupation, infiltration, raids and combinations thereof.

In subsequent decades, the trope associated with these female robots continued to develop to include 21st century fictional accounts such as feminine robots like the Cylon Three, Six and Eight models in the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica.

Finally, a narrative reading of Isaiah 53 was offered, with a focus on the literary trope of personification.

Clearly B, § can now do the work of a trope structure, or generalized trope space.

However, the darkness trope is subsumed to characterisation of the film style within an informative toned narrativisation of the film production process.

The master trope for desiring masculinity is Petrarchism, here suggested as a " literary strategy of compensation " (134 ).

Subject matter and genre are defined in terms of the serial killer trope and The Silence of the Lambs.

He had the sweet and patient temper which knew how to live, unrepining and unsoured, in the midst of the most watchful persecution, public and private; and it is wonderful how rarely he used his splendid rhetoric for the purposes of invective against the spirit and policy from which he must have suffered deeply, while, it may be added, he never hid an innuendo under a metaphor or a trope.

Transsexuality might be viewed as a trope for the relationship between scientific and medical worlds, and all sexed identities.

Suppose we are working with a nucleate or kernel version of trope theory.

With some further constraints, trope bundles become trope sheaves.

Whedon's work on Buffy created a pop cultural trope that influenced literature and television for years to come, including a burgeoning genre known as urban fantasy.

A twist on this trope is found in the NBC television series Chuck where the main character becomes the human computer known as Intersect, and must struggle against the Intersect’s ability to overwhelm his mind.

The fantasy elements of angels and demons are often at odds with the religious aspect of the beings in this science fiction trope.

The first trope emphasizes the disagreement of philosophers on all fundamental points; knowledge comes either from the senses or from reason.

It may be wondered if the move to kernel tropism in trope bundle and sheaf theory is absolutely necessary.

Such a position might be called trope universalism; Mertz calls his version ' moderate realism ' .

The master trope for desiring masculinity is Petrarchism, here suggested as a " literary strategy of compensation " (134).

Nonetheless, the reviews do organize a semantic field around the trope of darkness with some degree of complexity.

Such a position might be called trope universalism; Mertz calls his version ' moderate realism '.

The physical image in the mirror spins into a kaleidoscope of literary and visual associations, becoming a radically unstable trope of transition.

The reception trope of recognition here exists in the same way that the Roll of Honor films work.

With some further constraints, trope bundles become trope bundles become trope sheaves.

As if only the savage dwelt near enough to Nature and Truth to borrow a trope from them.

The second trope deals with the validity of proof; the proof of one so-called fact depends on another fact which itself needs demonstration, and so on ad infinitum.

The fifth trope points out the impossibility of proving the sensible by the intelligible inasmuch as it remains to establish the intelligible in its turn by the sensible.