Irony creating a trope through implying the opposite of the standard meaning, such as describing a
bad situation as good times.
Metonymy a trope through proximity or correspondence. For example, referring to actions of the
U.S. President as actions of the White House.
Origins
In medieval writing
4 Examples
Rhetoricians have closely analyzed the great variety of
twists and turns used in poetry and literature and have
provided an extensive list of precise labels for these poetic devices. Examples include:
hyperbole
irony
Types
litotes
metaphor
metonymy
oxymoron
See also
Fantasy tropes and conventions
Invariance principle
Literary topos
Scheme (linguistics)
Stereotype
Tropological reading
TV Tropes, a site dedicated to cataloguing and
studying clich
References
[1] Miller (1990). Tropes, Parables, and Performatives. Duke
University Press. p. 9. ISBN 0822311119.
[2] Cuddon, J. A.; Preston, C. E. (1998). Trope. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (4
ed.). London: Penguin. p. 948. ISBN 9780140513639.
[3] trope, Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springeld,
Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster, 2009, retrieved 200910-16
[4] trope (revised entry)". Oxford English Dictionary.
Oxford University Press. 2014.
[5] Childers, Joseph; Hentzi, Gary (1995). Trope. The
Columbia Dictionary of Modern Literary and Cultural
Criticism. New York: Columbia UP. p. 309. ISBN
9780231072434.
[6] Cuddon, J. A.; Preston, C. E. (1998). Quem quaeritis
trope. The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (4 ed.). London: Penguin. p. 721. ISBN
9780140513639.
[7] Burke, K. (1969). A grammar of motives. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Sources
Silva Rhetorica. rhetoric.byu.edu.
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