trope
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++LDOCE 5++trope /trəʊp $ troʊp/ noun [countable] technicalSLAL words, phrases, images etc that are used for an unusual or interesting effect 转义；比喻 cinematic tropes 电影中的比喻手法
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trope• Knowledge of their ontological status thus functions in Textermination as a trope for indeterminacy.• In effect, Freud attributes to the unconscious the power of a writer brilliantly deploying the classical tropes to transform his material.• The movement was also programmatically self-conscious, one of the modernist tropes.• Brooke-Rose reverses this familiar postmodernist trope by focusing instead on the relation between the characters and their readers.Origin trope (1500-1600) Latin tropus, from Greek tropos “turn, way, style”, from trepein “to turn”trope nounChinese
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trope
trope /trəʊp $ troʊp/
noun [countable]
cinematic tropes
trope /trəʊp $ troʊp/
noun [countable] Date: 1500-1600
Language: Latin
Origin: tropus, from Greek tropos __turn, way, style__, from trepein __to turn__
technical words, phrases, images etc that are used for an unusual or interesting effect:Language: Latin
Origin: tropus, from Greek tropos __turn, way, style__, from trepein __to turn__