Trope vs. Troupe — What's the Difference?

A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression

A group of dancers, actors, or other entertainers who tour to different venues

A figure of speech using words in nonliteral ways, such as a metaphor.

A company or group of actors, dancers, or other performers.

A word or phrase interpolated as an embellishment in the sung parts of certain medieval liturgies.

A company of, often touring, actors, singers or dancers.

A theme, motif, plot, or literary device that commonly recurs within a genre or work of fiction, especially when considered clichéd

Any group of people working together on a shared activity.

An often recurring idea or image

(intransitive) To tour with a troupe.

Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif.

A company or troop, especially the company pf performers in a play or an opera.

(medieval Christianity) An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.

Organization of performers and associated personnel (especially theatrical);

(rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.

(geometry) Mathematical senses.

A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic.

(archaic) The reciprocal of a node on a surface.

(music) Musical senses.

A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music.

A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique.

(Judaism) A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it.

(philosophy) Philosophical senses.

(Greek philosophy) Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism.

(metaphysics) A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal.

(transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.

(transitive) Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.

To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif.

To turn into, coin, or create a new trope.

To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes.

(intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes.

The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.

Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense