Definition:
tropes
- tropesphrase, sentence, or verse formerly interpolated in a liturgical text to amplify or embellish
- tropesa. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense b. instance of this
- tropes(in the philosophy of Santayana) the principle of organization according to which matter moves to form an object during the various stages of its existence