A melodic theme associated with a particular character, place, thing or idea in an opera.
A recurring theme.
A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.
Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.
A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
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.