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Aliterary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech.[1] Keith and Lundburg describe a trope as "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase".[2] The word trope has also undergone a semantic change and now also describes commonly recurring or overused literary and rhetorical devices,[3][4][5] motifs or clichs in creative works.[6][7] Literary tropes span almost every category of writing, such as poetry, film, plays, and video games.

A specialized use is the medieval amplification of texts from the liturgy, such as in the Kyrie Eleison (Kyrie, / magnae Deus potentia, / liberator hominis, / transgressoris mandati, / eleison). The most important example of such a trope is the Quem quaeritis?, an amplification before the Introit of the Easter Sunday service and the source for liturgical drama.[4][10] This particular practice came to an end with the Tridentine Mass, the unification of the liturgy in 1570 promulgated by Pope Pius V.[9]

These tropes can be used to represent common recurring themes throughout creative works, and in a modern setting relationships and character interactions. It can also be used to denote examples of common repeating figures of speech and situations.[18]

Whilst most of the various forms of phrasing described above are in common usage, most of the terms themselves are not, in particular antanaclasis, litotes, metonymy, synecdoche and catachresis.[citation needed]

In this entry, reasons both for and against the existence of tropesare surveyed. As we shall see, what those reasons are, and how wellthey manage to support (or cause trouble for) the trope-theoreticalthesis, depends on which version of the trope view they concern. Muchof the entry will therefore be dedicated to distinguishing differentversions of the theory from each other, and to see what costs andbenefits adopting either version brings with it.

In view of the strong Aristotelian influence on medieval thinkers, itis perhaps not surprising that tropes or trope-like entities are foundalso here. Often mentioned in this connection is Ockham (cf.also Aquinas, Duns Scotus, and Suarez). Ockham held that there are intotal four sorts of individual things: substances, qualities,substantial forms, and matter. Claude Panaccio (2015) argues that allfour sorts of individual things are best understood as tropes or, inthe case of substances, as bundles of tropes (more precisely asnuclear bundles of tropes similar to those defended by e.g.,Simons 1994 and Keinnen 2015).

This list of early proponents of trope-like entities could have beenmade much longer. D. W. Mertz (1996) mentions, besides those alreadylisted, Bothius, Avicenna, and Averros. And Kevin Mulliganet al. (1984) point out that similar views can be found defended byearly modern philosophers, including Leibniz, Locke, Spinoza,Descartes, Berkeley and Hume.

In philosophy, new posits are regularly introduced by being comparedwith, or likened to, an already familiar item. Tropes are no exceptionto this rule. In fact, tropes have been introduced by being comparedwith and likened to not one but two distinct but equallyfamiliar kinds of things: properties and objects (Loux 2015). Up untilvery recently, that tropes can be introduced in both of these ways wasconsidered a feature of the theory, not a source of concern. Tropes,was the idea, can be compared with and likened to both properties andobjects, because tropes are a bit of both. Recently, however,both friends and foes of tropes have started to question whethertropes can be a bit of both. At any rate, this will depend onwhat being a property and being an object amountsto, an issue on which there is no clear consensus.

The nature and particularity of a trope are intrinsically grounded inthat trope. If tropes are simple, their nature and their particularityare hence identical. The natures of a red trope and an orange tropeare inexactly similar. Hence their respective particularities shouldbe inexactly similar as well. However, these particularities areexactly similar. Hence, their particularities are notidentical to their natures, and tropes are not simple.

On the counterfactual supposition of a shift in wind, what results isa redness exactly like the actual one, which is in perfectlyisomorphic resemblance relations to its worldmates as the actual oneis to its worldmates, with just a slight difference in distance withrespect to, e.g., the roundness of the moon.

Their reality is determined by mind-independent facts about tropes.Tropes manifest universals in the sense that universals are nothingover and above property instances as tropes are by their nature ofkinds.

The trope-kind theory offers an interesting and so far surprisinglylittle discussed solution to the problem of the One over Many. So far,it is a view with few if any explicit contemporary proponents (thoughcf. Paul 2002, 2017 and van Inwagen 2017: 348f.[26]). It is not unlikely that this state of affairs is now about tochange.

This sort of argument in favor of the substrate-attribute view cannotbe recreated for a view on which properties are tropes, however. For,if objects are bundles of tropes, because tropes are particularsnot universals, even if a and b arequalitatively identical, they are not numerically identical. And theyare not numerically identical because they are constituted bynumerically distinct tropes. No need for substrates!

According to the trope proponent, if you accept the existence oftropes, you have the means available to solve or to dissolve a numberof serious problems, not just in metaphysics but in philosophygenerally. In what follows, the most common trope-applicationsproposed in the literature are very briefly introduced.

If properties are tropes, some trope theorists have proposed, thisconclusion can be resisted (cf. Robb 1997; Martin and Heil1999; Heil and Robb 2003; for a hybrid version cf. Nanay2009; cf. also Gozzano and Orilia 2008). To see this, we needfirst to disambiguate our notion of a property. This notion, it isargued, is really two notions, namely:

Relatively little has so far been written on the topic of tropes inrelation to issues in moral philosophy and value theory. Two thingshave however been argued. First, that tropes (and not, as is morecommonly supposed, objects or persons or states of affairs) are thebearers of final value. Second, that moral non-naturalists (who holdthat moral facts are fundamentally autonomous from natural facts) mustregard properties as tropes to be able to account for thesupervenience of the moral on the natural.

Non-naturalists, next, are often charged with not being able toexplain what appears to be a necessary dependence of moral facts onnatural facts. Normally this dependence is explained in terms ofsupervenience, but in order for such an account to be compatible withthe basic tenets of moral non-naturalism, it has been argued, thissupervenience must, in turn, be explainable in purely non-naturalisticterms (for an overview of this debate, cf. Ridge 2018).According to Shafer-Landau (2003) (as interpreted by Ridge 2007) thisproblem is solved if moral and physical properties in the sense ofkinds, are distinguished from moral and physical properties in thesense of tokens, or tropes. For then we can say, in analogy with whathas been suggested in the debate on the causal relevance of mentalproperties, that although (necessarily) every moral trope isconstituted by some concatenation of natural tropes, it does notfollow that every moral type is identical to a natural type. Thissuggestion is criticized in Ridge (2007).

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I find just as much recent adult and YA fiction filled with disability stereotypes and tropes. A much-anticipated new release I recently finished, To Paradise by Hanya Yanagihara, has a character become autistic after taking medication for a virus. This is problematic because of the myths that surround vaccines, medicine, and their link to autism when in fact there is clear evidence vaccines do not cause autism. Another autistic-coded character threatens to stab students with a virus-filled needle unless they befriend them. These are deeply problematic portrayals of autism that I was astonished to find in what is otherwise a gorgeously written book.

Disability as a character quirk comes in many forms. Sometimes these characters are depicted as disabled to make them stand out and show them as important to the novel. For example, in Wicked Saints by Emily A. Duncan, a morally grey character is given a tragic backstory and a scar across his eye that affects his vision to suddenly make him seem more sympathetic and pitiable. Despite his bad deeds, since he is being punished daily by his disability, the reader can view him as a potential love interest. Needless to say, this is not how disability works. Disability is not a punishment, nor is it a personality trait.

IMPACT: These tropes are not only found on anti-Muslim blogs online, but also in news and entertainment media. They can also be manifested in political speech and can serve as assumptions underlying government policy.

The following are the main anti-Muslim tropes used to characterize Muslims and their religion, Islam. Many of these tropes mirror stereotypes and claims made about other minorities groups throughout American history like Jews, Japanese-Americans, and Catholics. These narratives are communicated in explicit ways, but more often they are manifested subtly. They are conveyed not only through text and speech, but also through the juxtaposition of images, music, and words.

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