# Trope

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**Trope** or **tropes** may refer to:

## Arts and entertainment

- [Trope (cinema)](/source/Trope_(cinema)), a cinematic convention for conveying a concept
- [Trope (literature)](/source/Trope_(literature)), a figure of speech or common literary device
- [Trope (music)](/source/Trope_(music)), any of a variety of different things in medieval and modern music
- [Fantasy trope](/source/Fantasy_trope), elements of the fantasy genre

## Philosophy and religion

- [Trope (philosophy)](/source/Trope_(philosophy)), figurative and metaphorical language and various other technical senses - Tropes, qualities or properties in [formal ontology](/source/Formal_ontology#Qualities) in philosophy
- Trope, a musical motif associated with [cantillation](/source/Hebrew_cantillation), chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible

## Politics

- [Trope (politics)](/source/Trope_(politics)), the use of narratives for political purposes

## Science and technology

- [Trope (mathematics)](/source/Trope_(mathematics)), an archaic geometry term for a tangent line or plane
- [Tropidophiidae](/source/Tropidophiidae) or tropes, a dwarf boa
- Tropes, part of the desktop search engine software [Tropes Zoom](/source/Tropes_Zoom)

## People

- [Michael Trope](/source/Michael_Trope) (born 1951), American trial lawyer and former sports agent

## See also

- [TV Tropes](/source/TV_Tropes), a wiki for conventions and devices found within creative works

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