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Tropes are the product of a medieval practice of poetic and musical expansion; and in a music-historical context, the term “trope” refers to any textual or melodic figure that is added to an existing chant without altering the textual or melodic structure of the said chant.

Tropes are of two general types: those adding a new text to a melisma (section of music having one syllable extended over many notes); and those inserting new music, usually with words, between existing sections of melody and text.

These two genres began through a process of expanding on existing compositions. This process of adding to existing chants was labeled as troping. As this "troping" continued composers embellished chant melodies by adding text, mellismas and eventually by adding additional voices and parts.

Medieval music From the 9th century onward, trope refers to additions of new music to pre-existing chants in use in the Western Christian Church. Three types of addition are found in music manuscripts: new melismas without text (mostly unlabelled or called "trope" in manuscripts)

A trope is a word used in a nonliteral sense to create a powerful image. If you say, "Chicago's worker bees buzz around the streets," you're using a trope. Workers aren't literally bees, but it suggests how fast they move. Trope refers to different types of figures of speech, such as puns, metaphors, and similes.

At their most basic level, tropes are figures of speech, which include everything from moments of figurative language like metaphors to structural elements of writing like themes and genres.

A trope is a word used in a nonliteral sense to create a powerful image. If you say, "Chicago's worker bees buzz around the streets," you're using a trope. Workers aren't literally bees, but it suggests how fast they move. Trope refers to different types of figures of speech, such as puns, metaphors, and similes.

A genre is a type of story with a familiar model, such as a mystery or romance. A trope is a plot mechanism commonly used within that genre, like a damsel in distress situation or a “chosen one.”

/truːp/ [ I usually + adv/prep ] to walk somewhere in a large group, usually with one person behind another: The little boys trooped after him across the playing fields. The Norwich fans gave their team a loud cheer as they trooped off the field.

A trope is a word used in a nonliteral sense to create a powerful image. If you say, "Chicago's worker bees buzz around the streets," you're using a trope. Workers aren't literally bees, but it suggests how fast they move. Trope refers to different types of figures of speech, such as puns, metaphors, and similes.

A trope is a figurative use of a word or phrase. Often, this figurative use has a repetitive element which helps create a theme, symbol, or motif.

Though the word trope has taken on a negative connotation in recent years as a signifier of an overused genre convention, literary tropes - including irony, hyperbole, and synecdoche - are tools you can employ to elevate your writing.