单词 | trope |
释义 | trope From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English, Literature Linguisticstropetrope /trəʊp $ troʊp/ noun [countable]technicalSLAL words, phrases, images etc that are used for an unusual or interesting effect cinematic tropesExamples from the Corpustrope• 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” |
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