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TROPE
TROPE, also turn of phrase. In RHETORIC, both an expression that deviates from the natural and literal through a change in meaning, often with a pleasing effect, and the device or technique that makes such a change possible. For the Roman rhetorician Quintilian, tropes were metaphors and metonyms, etc., and figures (figurae) were such forms of discourse as rhetorical questions, digression, repetition, antithesis, and periphrasis (also referred to as schemes). He noted that the two kinds of usage were often confused (a state of affairs that has continued to the present day). In the 18c, the term became associated with over-ornate style and fell into disrepute when a plainer style came to be preferred. As a result, what were once known as tropes and figures are now generally called figures of speech or, more broadly still, rhetorical devices. See FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE, FIGURE OF SPEECH.
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TOM McARTHUR. "TROPE." Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. TOM McARTHUR. "TROPE." Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language. 1998. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O29-TROPE.html TOM McARTHUR. "TROPE." Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language. 1998. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O29-TROPE.html |
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1. Interpolations in plainsong words, resulting either in mus. melisma on one note or a fragment of new melody. Practice flourished from 9th to 15th cent., was abused, and finally banned by Tridentine reform. Survived only as the sequence (trope set to final melisma of Alleluia). 2. Term used by Hauer to describe 44 pairs of unordered hexachords which are basis of his version of 12-note technique. |
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MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "trope." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "trope." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-trope.html MICHAEL KENNEDY and JOYCE BOURNE. "trope." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O76-trope.html |
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trope (rhet.) use of a word or phrase in a sense not proper to it, figure of speech XVI; (liturg.) phrase introduced into the text for musical embellishment XIX. — L. tropus figure of speech — Gr. trópos turn, rel. to trépein vb. turn.
So troper book of tropes. OE. tropere — medL. troperium, var. of tropārium. |
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T. F. HOAD. "trope." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. T. F. HOAD. "trope." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-trope.html T. F. HOAD. "trope." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology. 1996. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O27-trope.html |
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trope. In the W. Church, a phrase or sentence, with its music, introducing, or interpolated into, any of the chants of the Mass and some of those of the Divine Office. Tropes for the Proper flourished particularly in the 11th cent. and then went out of use; those for the Ordinary continued until they were for bidden by the Council of Trent.
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E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "trope." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "trope." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-trope.html E. A. LIVINGSTONE. "trope." The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church. 2000. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O95-trope.html |
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•aslope, cope, dope, elope, grope, hope, interlope, lope, mope, nope, ope, pope, rope, scope, slope, soap, taupe, tope, trope
•myope • telescope • periscope
•stereoscope • bioscope • stroboscope
•kaleidoscope • CinemaScope
•gyroscope • microscope • horoscope
•stethoscope • antelope • envelope
•zoetrope • skipping-rope • tightrope
•towrope • heliotrope • lycanthrope
•philanthrope • thaumatrope
•misanthrope
•isotope, radioisotope
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"trope." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 28 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "trope." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 28, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-trope.html "trope." Oxford Dictionary of Rhymes. 2007. Retrieved May 28, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O233-trope.html |
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