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Trope Theorists
Trope or tropes may refer to: Arts and entertainment * Trope (cinema), a cinematic convention for conveying a concept * Trope (literature), a figure of speech or common literary device * Trope (music), any of a variety of different things in medieval and modern music * Fantasy trope, elements of the fantasy genre Philosophy and religion * Trope (philosophy), figurative and metaphorical language and various other technical senses ** Tropes, qualities or properties in formal ontology in philosophy * Trope, a musical motif associated with cantillation, chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible Politics * Trope (politics), the use of narratives for political purposes Science and technology * Trope (mathematics) In geometry, ''trope'' is an archaic term for a singular (meaning special) tangent space of a Abelian variety, variety, often a quartic surface. The term may have been introduced by , who defined it as "the reciprocal term to node". It is not easy ..., an archaic g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trope (cinema)
In cinema, a trope is a type of stereotypical situation or mannerism of a character that is commonly used in its setting or genre. A common thematic trope is the rise and fall of a mobster in a classic gangster film. The film genre also often features the sartorial trope of a rising gangster buying new clothes. Etymology The term has the same origin as that of "trope" in the sense of literature, and derived from this. In turn, this came from the Greek (''tropos''), "turn, direction, way", derived from the verb τρέπειν (''trepein''), "to turn, to direct, to alter, to change". Tropes and their classification were an important field in classical rhetoric. The study of tropes has been taken up again in modern criticism, especially in deconstruction. Tropological criticism (not to be confused with tropological reading, a type of biblical exegesis) is the historical study of tropes, which aims to "define the dominant tropes of an epoch" and to "find those tropes in litera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trope (literature)
A literary trope is an artistic effect realized with figurative language – word, phrase, image – such as a rhetorical figure. In editorial practice, a ''trope'' is "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase". Semantic change has expanded the definition of the literary term ''trope'' to also describe a writer's usage of commonly recurring or overused literary techniques and rhetorical devices (characters and situations), motifs, and clichés in a work of creative literature. Origins The term ''trope'' derives from the Greek (), 'a turn, a change', related to the root of the verb (), 'to turn, to direct, to alter, to change'; this means that the term is used metaphorically to denote, among other things, metaphorical language. Tropes and their classification were an important field in classical rhetoric. The study of tropes has been taken up again in modern criticism, especially in deconstruction. Tropological criticism (not to be confused with t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trope (music)
The word trope or tropus may refer to a variety of different concepts in Medieval music, medieval, 20th-century music, 20th-, and Contemporary classical music, 21st-century music. The term ''trope'' derives from the Greek (''tropos''), "a turn, a change", related to the root of the verb (''trepein''), "to turn, to direct, to alter, to change". The Latinization (literature), Latinised form of the word is ''tropus''. In music, a trope is adding another section, or trope to a plainchant or section of plainchant, thus making it appropriate to a particular occasion or festival. Medieval music From the 9th century onward, trope refers to additions of new music to pre-existing chants in use in the Western Christian Church. Three types of addition are found in music manuscripts: # new melismas without text (mostly unlabelled or called "trope" in manuscripts) # addition of a new text to a pre-existing melisma (more often called ''prosula'', ''prosa'', ''verba'' or ''versus'') # new ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fantasy Trope
A fantasy trope is a specific type of literary trope (recurring theme) that occurs in fantasy fiction. Worldbuilding, plot, and characterization have many common conventions, many of them having ultimately originated in myth and folklore. J. R. R. Tolkien's legendarium (and in particular, ''The Lord of the Rings'') for example, was inspired from a variety of different sources including Germanic, Finnish, Greek, Celtic and Slavic myths. Literary fantasy works operate using these tropes, while others use them in a revisionist manner, making the tropes over for various reasons such as for comic effect, and to create something fresh (a method that often generates new clichés). Good vs. Evil The conflict of good against evil is a theme in the many popular forms of fantasy; normally, evil characters invade and disrupt the good characters' lands. J. R. R. Tolkien delved into the nature of good and evil in ''The Lord of the Rings'', but many of those who followed him use the conf ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trope (philosophy)
Trope denotes figurative and metaphorical language and one which has been used in various technical senses. The term ''trope'' derives from the Greek τρόπος (''tropos''), "a turn, a change", related to the root of the verb τρέπειν (''trepein''), "to turn, to direct, to alter, to change"; this means that the term is used metaphorically to denote, among other things, metaphorical language. The term is also used in technical senses, which do not always correspond to its linguistic origin. Its meaning has to be judged from the context, some of which are given below. Basic meaning as metaphor Here a trope is a figurative and metaphorical use of a word or a phrase. The verb ''to trope'' means then to make a trope. In epistemology A trope or "mode" refers to skeptical stock arguments or "ways of refuting dogmatism." There are two sets of these tropes: the ten modes of Aenesidemus and the five modes of Agrippa. In metaphysics Trope theory (or trope nominalism) in met ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Formal Ontology
In philosophy, the term formal ontology is used to refer to an ontology defined by axioms in a formal language with the goal to provide an unbiased (Problem domain, domain- and application-independent) view on Reality#Western philosophy, reality, which can help the modeler of Problem domain, domain- or application-specific ontology (information science), ontologies to avoid possibly erroneous ontological assumptions encountered in modeling large-scale ontologies. By maintaining an independent view on reality, a formal (upper ontology, upper level) ontology gains the following properties: *indefinite expandability: *:the ontology remains consistent with increasing content. *content and context independence: *:any kind of 'concept' can find its place. *accommodate different levels of granularity. Historical background Theories on how to conceptualize reality date back as far as Plato and Aristotle. The term 'formal ontology' itself was coined by Edmund Husserl in the second editi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hebrew Cantillation
Hebrew cantillation, trope, trop, or ''te'amim'' is the manner of chanting ritual readings from the Hebrew Bible in synagogue Jewish services, services. The chants are written and notated in accordance with the special signs or marks printed in the Masoretic Text of the Bible, to complement the letters and Niqqud, vowel points. These marks are known in English as 'accents' (diacritics), 'notes' or trope symbols, and in Hebrew language, Hebrew as () or just (). Some of these signs were also sometimes used in medieval manuscripts of the Mishnah. The musical motifs associated with the signs are known in Hebrew as or (not to be confused with Hasidic Judaism, Hasidic nigun) and in Yiddish as (): the word ''trope'' is sometimes used in Jewish English languages, Jewish English with the same meaning. There are multiple traditions of cantillation. Within each tradition, there are multiple tropes, typically for different books of the Bible and often for different occasions. For ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trope (politics)
Tropes are narratives that often rely on symbols or myths to inform beliefs in politics and political science. John S. Nelson argued in 1998 that tropes were not examined enough, and that being more aware of them would improve political discussion and debate. In 2021, Renée DiResta argued for prebunking health misinformation tropes as a way of reducing the spread of misleading information. Types * Ableist tropes * Antisemitic tropes * Childless cat ladies * Fascist tropes * Health misinformation tropes * Islamophobic trope * Outside agitators at protests * Racist tropes * The invisible hand American political tropes * American exceptionalism * Coastal elites vs. the heartland * Deep state conspiracy theory * Illegal immigration and crime * Race and crime * The welfare queen * Owning the libs{{Cite web, last = Robertson, first = Derek, title = How ‘Owning the Libs’ Became the GOP’s Core Belief, work = POLITICO, access-date = 2025-04-22, date = 2021- ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Trope (mathematics)
In geometry, ''trope'' is an archaic term for a singular (meaning special) tangent space of a Abelian variety, variety, often a quartic surface. The term may have been introduced by , who defined it as "the reciprocal term to node". It is not easy to give a precise definition, because the term is used mainly in older books and papers on algebraic geometry, whose definitions are vague and different, and use archaic terminology. The term ''trope'' is used in the theory of quartic surfaces in projective space, where it is sometimes defined as a tangent space meeting the quartic surface in a conic; for example Kummer's surface has 16 tropes. , describes a trope as a tangent plane where the envelope of nearby tangent planes forms a conic, rather than a plane pencil (mathematics), pencil which we would expect for a generic point. The tangent plane would be tangent to the quartic along the conic, implying that the Gauss map would have a singular point. See also * Glossary of classical alg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropidophiidae
The Tropidophiidae, common name dwarf boas or thunder snakes, are a family of nonvenomous snakes found from Mexico and the West Indies south to southeastern Brazil. These are small to medium-sized fossorial snakes, some with beautiful and striking color patterns. Currently, two living genera, containing 34 species, are recognized. Two other genera ('' Ungaliophis'' and '' Exiliboa'') were once considered to be tropidophiids but are now known to be more closely related to the boids, and are classified in the subfamily Ungaliophiinae. There are a relatively large number of fossil snakes that have been described as tropidophiids (because their vertebrae are easy to identify), but which of these are more closely related to ''Tropidophis'' and ''Trachyboa'' and which are more closely related to ''Ungaliophis'' and ''Exiliboa'' is unknown. Description This family is confined to the neotropics, mainly in Hispaniola, Jamaica, and the Cayman Islands, with the greatest diversity being in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tropes Zoom
Tropes Zoom was a desktop search engine and semantic analysis software from Acetic/Semantic-Knowledge. Originally written by Pierre Molette in 1994 in partnership with University Paris 8, it was the first search engine based on semantic networks to be widely known. Unlike other search engines, Tropes Zoom suggested that the user replace each identified word with a hypernym. Thus, the search is not carried out directly on the words chosen, but on the totality of their semantic equivalents. It let users group files together by subject, and analyze all the texts dealing with one or several themes within a large collection of documents. Since 2011, Tropes is available as free software under a variant of BSD license, but Tropes Zoom is not available.According to http://www.semantic-knowledge.com/download.htm . Retrieved 15 August 2015. Tropes Zoom features The Tropes Zoom suite for Microsoft Windows consisted of five components: * Tropes, a text analysis and semantic classification so ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Trope
Michael Lance "Mike" Trope (born 1951), is a Los Angeles based trial lawyer and former sports agent for over 200 NFL players.Bill Brubaker"Trope: 'It's a game that has no rules' ,"''New York Daily Times,'' April 14, 1983. Trope was a sports agent from the time he was a 21-year-old senior at University of Southern California, USC, in 1972 until he retired from the business in 1985. Subsequently, after Trope's graduation from Loyola Law School, he was admitted to practice law in California in 1987. As an agent for football stars, Trope was known for negotiating record breaking contracts in the 1970s, including the first million dollar package for an NFL rookie. This caused many publications to refer to Trope, still in his 20s, as a Super Agent by 1977,Ron Martz"Just call him 'Super Agent',"''St. Petersburg Times,'' May 4, 1977 as well as "Whiz Kid"Patrick Zier"Rickey Bell:'It Can't Get Worse',"''Lakeland Ledger,'' May 4, 1977. and "LA's Boy Wonder".Paul Zimmerman''Sports Illustrated ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
