Trope

Trope or tropes may refer to:

Music

• Trope, or cantillation, a notation for musical reading of the Bible in Jewish liturgy
• Trope (religion), a musical embellishment of prose
• Trope (music), Medieval music, a variation or additional section
• Trope (music), 20th-century music, an unordered collection of different pitches

Language and creative works

• Trope (literature), figurative language in literature, or a figure of speech, or something recurring across a genre or type of creative work
• Trope (linguistics), a rhetorical figure of speech that consists of a play on words
• Trope of Litotes, a literary method of denying a negation
• Tropes in Agatha Christie's novels, motifs used in the novels
• TV Tropes, a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works
• Fantasy tropes and conventions, elements of the fantasy genre

Philosophy

• Trope (philosophy), Greek philosophy, tropes or modes in the Ten Modes of Pyrrhonism
• Trope (philosophy), philosophy of history, styles of discourse
• Trope (philosophy), trope theory in philosophy (metaphysics), a particular instance of a property or attribute

Mathematics, computers, and information science

• Trope (mathematics), a tangent line or plane
• Trope (ontology), properties, qualities, and attributes, see formal ontology, qualities
• Tropes Zoom, a desktop search engine