Note: Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony.
Defn: The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
Defn: One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.
But he is not responsible for any part of the book, except the notes on the tropes and the third and fourth portraits of St. Gregory.
The tropes and the melodies from which the sequences developed probably come under this head, and some specimens of these may be seen in the Winchester Troper (Ed.
Scepticism is not an empiric matter such as this, for it contains a scientific aim, its tropes turn on the Notion, the very essence of determinateness, and are exhaustive as regards the determinate.
The fifth, sixth, eighth and ninth tropes finally deal with a union of both sides, or these all together contain the relationship; this is a demonstration that the object does not present itself in itself, but in relation to something else.
This relativity of everything existent and thought is a more inward, real determinateness, and all the tropes already mentioned really aim at it.
If we now classify these ten tropes in conformity with the plan indicated above by Sextus (p.
As against all these dogmatic philosophies, such criticism and idealism not excepted, the sceptical tropespossess the negative capacity of demonstrating that what the former maintain to be the implicit is not really so.
Such and many other tropes of things and dreams of truth, this royal art set forth.
The Sequences were the tropes appended to the last Alleluia of the Gradual, the psalm chanted in the celebration of the Mass, between the reading of the Epistle and the Gospel.
Tropes were interpolations or additions to the older text of the Liturgy.
The ideas of Christian Theology are too simple for eloquence, too sacred for fiction, and too majestic for ornament; to recommend them by tropes and figures, is to magnify by a concave mirror the sidereal hemisphere.
I cannot avoid taking occasion to remark here, that sailors, like the orientals, are exceedingly addicted to the use of tropes and figures of speech, to similes and metaphors.
This is decidedly an orientalism; and I have observed in another place that sailors resemble the Orientals in their fondness for tropes and figures.
His schemes and tropes are of course the rhetorical figures; but let him explain them in his own artless way.
Braverie of speach consisteth of tropes or turnings, and in figures or fashionings.
St. Augustine recommends that students of the scriptures study the rhetorical figures so that they may be able to interpret the tropes in the Bible, such as allegory.
Quintilian classifies as tropes words or phrases converted from their proper signification to another.
One can use, he says, the same figures or tropes in verse as are used in prose.
Adornation consisteth in the sweetness of the phrase, and is seen in tropes and figures.
Therefore is rhetoric made an art; therefore the names of so many tropes and figures were invented; because it was observed they had such and such effect upon the audience.
From hence have sprung the tropes and figures, for which they wanted a name, who first practised them, and succeeded in them.
The pages of the Old Testament supplied them with a hundred baleful heroes to whom they might liken their warrior, and a hundred cruel and bloody tropes with which they might decorate the funeral oration.
Voltaire knew exactly what kind of malicious gravity and feigned respect would surround this amazing performance and its author with inextinguishable laughter, and his thousand turns and tropes cut deep into Maupertuis like sharpened swords.
They rectify many naif blunders and so make the whole narrative more intelligible, but they still render most of the tropes of the original literally.
These tropesare not the substance of Holy Writ; they are simply its color.
Emonge authors manye tymes vnder the name of figures, Tropes also be comprehended: Neuerthelesse ther is a notable difference betwixt thẽ.
A briefe note of eloquciõ, the third parte of Rhetoricke, wherunto all Figures and Tropes be referred.
Exornacion is a fyne polyshinge of wordes and sentences by disseueryng thẽ w^t diuerse goodly colours and tropes or chaũgings of speach.
His efforts in his works on rhetoric, the two editions of the Treatise, provided the sixteenth century Englishman with the identical schemes and tropes which had been a heritage of the Latin language since antiquity.
Homer used Tropes and figures of this sort and handed them down to posterity, and justly obtains glory beyond all others.
These kind of Tropes were invented by Homer first of all.
And indeed, neither the measures nor the tropes nor the grandeur of words nor the aptness of metaphors nor the harmony of the composition gives such a degree of elegance and gracefulness to a poem as a well-ordered and artificial fiction doth.
The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
One who deals in tropes; specifically, one who avoids the literal sense of the language of Scripture by explaining it as mere tropes and figures of speech.
Now I will not go to Longinus for my tropes and figures; I have just met with a little book on the subject, which I put into my pocket to-day, intending to finish it on my journey, but I have been better employed.
For which an eloquence that aims to vex, With nativetropes of anger arms the sex.
TR[=O]'PIST, one who usestropes or who explains Scripture by them.
Holmes's seven tropes are all of them defined in the main text of this section, except Catachresis, which is commonly explained to be "an abuse of a trope.
Tropes consist in a word's being employed to signify something that is different from its original and primitive meaning.
I proceed to lay down the rules to be observed in the conduct of metaphors, and which are much the same for tropes of every kind.
I proceed to lay down the rules to be observed in the conduct of metaphors; and these, with little variation, will be applicable to tropes of every kind.
Tropes and metaphors so closely resemble each other that it is not always easy, nor is it important to be able to distinguish the one from the other.
Between Tropes and Figures, some writers attempt a full distinction; but this, if practicable, is of little use.
These same tropes recur in American languages in the same connection.
Tropes and Fictions are raised, as it were, upon the Foundation of right Reason.
It is also true that a vast body of the world's poetry is full of tropes like metaphors and similes.
The tropeswere more natural to early man who personified inanimate things and always saw resemblances to draw from in nature.
But when freakish tropes take the place of poetry then we ought to rebel.
The day of tropes in poetry is, in spite of the Imagists, on the decline.
This definition covers much of ancient poetry, when man constantly used tropes or figures of speech.
How many tropes do you find in the prose plays of Ibsen or the novels of Balzac?
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "tropes" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
