Look up: trope

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   trope
   an addition to a pre-existent chant (known as the 'host'). The trope introduces and comments on the text of the host chant. Tropes are usually syllabic and are sung by a soloist; they may be monophonic or polyphonic.
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   Trope
   The figurative use of language - as in simile and metaphor.
   Found on http://www.poetsgraves.co.uk/glossary_of
   
   
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   trope
   [n] - language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
   Found on http://www.webdictionary.co.uk/definitio
   
   
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   trope
   figure of speech noun language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
   Found on http://wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?
   
   
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   Trope
   `Trope` 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 (philosophy) * Trope (music) **Medieval music **20th century music * Trope (Cantillation), sometimes `trop` , the notation for accentuation and musical reading of the Bible in Judaism.
   Found on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trope
   
   
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   Trope
   • (n.) The word or expression so used. • (n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.
   Found on http://thinkexist.com/dictionary/meaning
   
   
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   trope
   (from the article `epistemology`) ...by some evidence, there is an opposite proposition supported by evidence that is equally good. Arguments like these, which are designed to refute ... ...criticized the Academic Skeptics because they claimed to know too much, namely, that nothing could be known and that some things are more probable ....
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/83
   
   
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   trope
   (from the article `speech, figure of`) ...(e.g., pun and anagram); and (5) errors (e.g., malapropism, periphrasis, and spoonerism). Figures involving a change in sense, such as metaphor, ... ...said to pertain either to the texture of the discourse, the local colour or details, or to the structure, the shape of the total argument. Ancie...
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/83
   
   
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   trope
   in medieval church music, melody, explicatory text, or both added to a plainchant melody. Tropes are of two general types: those adding a new text ... [4 related articles]
   Found on http://www.britannica.com/eb/a-z/t/83
   
   
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    trope
    a semantic figure of speech or of thought that varies the meaning of a word or passage. Examples include metaphor, metonymy, objectification, and personification.
    Found on http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/display_r