Literary notes about Trope (AI summary)
In literary discourse, the term “trope” is employed to denote a figure of speech or rhetorical device that transfers meaning from its literal sense to a more inventive or figurative one. It functions as a tool that not only enriches the text with layers of metaphor, hyperbole, or irony but also serves as a means for interrelating concepts in unexpected ways, thereby inviting readers to see familiar ideas in a transformed light [1][2]. Trope, as a stylistic mechanism, can act both as a vehicle for subtle commentary and as a method to provoke emotional or intellectual responses, by shifting the ordinary meanings of words into novel applications [3][4]. Its use underscores literature’s capacity to engage with language dynamically, merging the straightforward with the allegorical to enhance both aesthetic appeal and interpretative depth [5][6].
- [196] In rhetoric a trope is ordinarily defined as the use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it.
— from A Source Book of Mediæval HistoryDocuments Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance - TROMP, trump, deceive. TROPE, figure of speech. TROW, think, believe, wonder.
— from Every Man in His Humor by Ben Jonson - Part i. Canto i. Line 81 For rhetoric, he could not ope His mouth, but out there flew a trope.
— from Familiar Quotations - "I am the bread of life,"—a truth, but a trope.
— from Christianity and Modern Thought by Charles Carroll Everett - The transfer of an epithet is called a “trope,” from a Greek word meaning to turn .
— from The Song of Hugh Glass by John G. Neihardt - And here goes: "Jack Frigidos, Jack Frigidos, Oh, what a trope you are!
— from Half-Hours with Jimmieboy by John Kendrick Bangs
