trope

お決まりの展開、定番のモチーフ

物語や他の芸術作品によく現れる考え、状況、人物の型。

やさしい英語で： An idea, situation, or character type that appears often in stories or other art.

• The lonely hero is a common trope.
• This film plays with familiar horror tropes.
• The writer avoids the trope of love at first sight.

類義語： motif, theme

よく使う表現： common trope, familiar trope, romantic trope

比喩

人を星と呼ぶなど、言葉を通常とは違う意味で使う表現。

やさしい英語で： An expression that uses words with an unusual meaning, such as calling someone a star.

• A metaphor is a trope.
• The poet uses several striking tropes.
• We studied how this trope changes the meaning of the phrase.

類義語： figure of speech

よく使う表現： literary trope, rhetorical trope, use a trope

短い終止句

一部の古い音楽で、旋律の最後に加える短い結びの部分。

やさしい英語で： A short ending added to a tune in some early music.

• The melody ends with a trope.
• The singer repeated the final trope.
• This manuscript records a short trope after the main melody.

類義語： cadence

よく使う表現： final trope, melodic trope, trope ending

トロープス

教会の礼拝で歌う曲に加えられた言葉や詩句。

やさしい英語で： Extra words or a verse added to music sung during a church service.

• The choir sang a trope.
• The trope adds words to the chant.
• Scholars found several medieval tropes in the church manuscript.

よく使う表現： liturgical trope, sing a trope, medieval trope