The most solemn part of the Divine Liturgy or the Mass during which the offerings of bread and wine are consecrated as body and blood of Christ.
An expression that can refer to virtually any referent, the specific referent being defined by context.
An expression that refers to a preceding expression.
The repetition of a phrase at the beginning of phrases, sentences, or verses, used for emphasis.
An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.
A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.
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.
A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.
A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.
To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.
To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.
To think or write in terms of tropes.
To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.