Trope

Trope or tropes may refer to:

Arts and entertainment

 * Trope (cinema), a cinematic convention for conveying a concept
 * Trope (literature), a figure of speech or common literary device
 * Trope (music), any of a variety of different things in medieval and modern music
 * Fantasy tropes, elements of the fantasy genre

Philosophy and religion

 * Trope (philosophy), figurative and metaphorical language and various other technical senses
 * Tropes, qualities or properties in formal ontology in philosophy
 * Trope, a musical motif associated with cantillation, chanting of readings from the Hebrew Bible

Science and technology

 * Trope (mathematics), an archaic geometry term for a tangent line or plane
 * Tropidophiidae or tropes, a dwarf boa
 * Tropes, part of the desktop search engine software Tropes Zoom

People

 * Michael Trope (born 1951), American trial lawyer and former sports agent