tropological
- adjective
- /trəˈpɒlədʒɪkəl/
- Literature
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tropológico
- The lecture focused on tropological expressions in literature that illustrate the use of metaphors and similes.
- tropological study of metamorphosis
Examples
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For Gross, metamorphosis highlights but also problematizes the different structures of metonymy and metaphor because it may deploy these tropological patterns simultaneously.
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Selfhood is both produced and effaced in this tropological dynamic, and the sense of ambiguity concerning subjectivity is only heightened in the last scene, in which Galatea turns into a woman.
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Metamorphosis as a tropological problem is another subject addressed in many recent studies.
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After the Fact is a double pun, two tropological turns on a literal meaning.
Academic text (2007) -
It only moves us into a more useful figurative or tropological relation with them.
Academic text (1990) -
For de Man and J. Hillis Miller, however, the transformation of a statue and its ambiguous tropological standing is ultimately the question of the rhetorical deconstruction of the self in the text.
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Jakobson argues that the question of the sign and its referent, as well as the question of tropological structures, is underscored in Pushkin's texts by their self-reflexive settings:
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My point here is not to disqualify de Man's research, but to argue for another possible way of understanding metamorphosis that would augment his and others' tropological analyses of Pygmalion.
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I shall next examine the theories of the tropological standing of metamorphosis, especially as developed by Jakobson and de Man, and I shall later juxtapose these with my own notion of metamorphosis as a figure for intertextuality in selected literary examples.
Academic text (1996) -
Strangely, despite their focus on the self-reflexive tropology of metamorphosis, none of these theorists seems to have noticed one of its most important and, indeed, most obvious tropological functions: the representation of textual revision.
Academic text (1996)
Synonyms
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6.6
Language that describes one thing by comparing it to another, not its real meaning
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8.2
Using imaginative language that does not mean exactly what it says
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6.7
To describe one thing by comparing it to another to show an idea or feeling
How Figurative
- Literature
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7.7
- Literature
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6.6
9
6.4
120
3.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
tropological = tropology (transparent) = tropo + ical
Relates directly to 'tropology'/'trope' (figures of speech), so the adjective meaning 'relating to tropes' is predictable from the base plus '-ical'.
Etymology
Tropological comes from the Greek root tropos, meaning 'turn', and it is the same root behind the English word trope, a common figure of speech. So tropological can describe language that uses these figurative 'turns' or literary patterns.