A feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are inflected to indicate the relative degree of the property they define exhibited by the word or phrase they modify or describe.
The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
A simile.
With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
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.