For many medieval writers, the image of the Garden of Eden also creates a location for human love and sexuality, often associated with the classic and medieval trope of the locus amoenus.

There are various forms of nominalism ( which is sometimes also referred to as " terminism "), three major forms are resemblance nominalism, conceptualism, and trope nominalism.

In both Universals and Scientific Realism and Universals: An Opinionated Introduction, Armstrong describes the relative merits of a number of nominalist theories which appeal either to " natural classes " ( a view he ascribes to Anthony Quinton ), concepts, resemblance relations or predicates, and also discusses non-realist " trope " accounts ( which he describes in the Universals and Scientific Realism volumes as " particularism ").

Christian symbolism is heavily implied, with Colonel White approximating God, Captain Black fulfilling the role of the Devil, Captain Scarlet serving as a Christ allegory, and Cloudbase symbolising Heaven, guarded by characters codenamed " Angels ", but Grant also connects Green's character to the trope of the African trickster hero.

It is also a rhetorical trope.

La Feuille villageoise was thoroughly partisan in its republican favoritism, and unambiguous in its didactic presentation of its opinions .. Less vitriolic and more analytical than many of its more infamous contemporary newspapers, La Feuille villageoise also distinguished itself by rarely identifying individual politicians as enemies of its ideas, but instead relied on a simple trope of aristocrates and patriotes.

War elephants also remain a popular artistic trope, either in the Orientalist painting tradition of the 19th century, or in literature following Tolkien, who popularised a fantastic rendition of war elephants in the form of oliphaunts.

He also told the audience that tmesis is his favourite trope.

Halivni ’ s conviction is that Auschwitz represents not merely God ’ s “ hiding his face ” from Israel, as a consequence of the Jews ’ sins — a familiar trope in rabbinic theology — but also his actual, ontological withdrawal from human history.

See also figure of speech, trope

The knight-errant stock character became the trope of the " knight in shining armour " in depiction of the Middle Ages in popular culture, and the term came to be used also outside of medieval drama, as in e. g. The Dark Knight as a title of Batman.

The concept of foolishness was a frequently used trope in the pre-Reformation period to legitimate criticism, as also used by Erasmus in his In Praise of Folly and Martin Luther in his Address to the Christian Nobility.

As blindness overtook Milton, it becomes a major trope in Samson Agonistes, and is seen also in Paradise Lost ( 3. 22-55 ) and his 19th Sonnet.

One kind of hypallage, also known as a transferred epithet, is the trope or rhetorical device in which a modifier, usually an adjective, is applied to the " wrong " word in the sentence.

They have also performed, recorded, and released a trope on John Cage's 4 ' 33 ".

Formerly, in the sung portions of the Mass, such as the introit or kyrie, it was permissible, especially during the medieval period, to amplify a liturgical formula by interpolating a farse ( from Medieval Latin farsa, forcemeat ), also called trope.

The image of a dying child was also a trope of Chartist discourse.

Although the liturgical passages are sung in Latin, Mass also includes additional texts in English written by Bernstein, Broadway composer Stephen Schwartz, and Paul Simon ( who wrote the first quatrain of the trope " Half of the People ").

This is also known as the pathetic fallacy, ' a term coined by John Ruskin ... for the practice of attributing human emotions to the inanimate or unintelligent world ' - as in ' the sentimental poetic trope of the " pathetic fallacy ", beloved of Theocritus, Virgil and their successors ' in the pastoral tradition.

In his highly influential book The Signifying Monkey ( 1988 ), Gates expands the term to refer not merely to a specific vernacular strategy but also to a trope of double-voiced repetition and reversal that exemplifies the distinguishing property of Black discourse.

The reversal of time is referred to also by the trope " slope of pine ", similar to the phrase " from swerve of shore to bend of bay " that, in the opening paragraph of Finnegans Wake, also denotes the curving of time ( in the latter case, its looping back to the beginning ).

Usually the whole trope will be played by males, even female characters also be performed by males.

A kenning ( ; derived from Old Norse ) is a type of literary trope, specifically circumlocution, in the form of a compound ( usually two words, often hyphenated ) that employs figurative language in place of a more concrete single-word noun.

Another form of nominalism is trope theory.

This recreated form is deduced from the Latin root tropus, meaning a trope and the various meanings of the Old French and Old Occitan related words.

Then the trope became an autonomous piece organized in stanza form.

Etymologies, often very learned and far-fetched, a favorite trope of antiquity, form the subject of just one of the encyclopedia's twenty books, but perceived linguistic similarities permeate the work.

It was described as a medical condition, a form of melancholy, in the Early Modern period, and became an important trope in Romanticism.

The " eyes following you round the room " trope has long been a stand-by in British comedy, used by Pete and Dud in The Art Gallery, among many others, sometimes in the form of a portrait with cut-away eyes that can be used as a peephole.

The butterfly effect is a common trope in fiction when presenting scenarios involving time travel and with hypotheses where one storyline diverges at the moment of a seemingly minor event resulting in two significantly different outcomes.

The visual trope portrayed in the Libro de juegos miniatures is seen in other European transcriptions of the Arabic translations, most notably the German Carmina Burana Manuscript: two figures, one on either side of the board, with the board tilted up to reveal to the readers the moves made by the players.

The immunity stems from the fact that each trope ( attribute ) can only be held by one concrete particular, thus qualitively indiscernible objects can exist while being numerically identical and the identity of indiscernibles therefore does not hold.

Firestone notes that the Qurayza tribe itself is described in Muslim sources as using the trope of being turned into apes if one breaks the Sabbath to justify not exploiting the Sabbath in order to attack Mohammad, when they were under siege.

It is a trope that we give the impression of being acquainted with rather than one that we actually ever need.

Additionally, in one scene, a character has a false tooth with poison hidden in it, a classical trope from many espionage stories, which Frank Herbert's Dune had employed three years before.

The final girl is a trope in thriller and horror films ( particularly slasher films ) that specifically refers to the last woman or girl alive to confront the killer, ostensibly the one left to tell the story.

The film is something of a black comedy about European colonialism — one that makes satirical use of the Brazilian modernist trope of Antropofagia (" cultural cannibalism "), then recently revived by the Tropicalismo movement of the 1960s — as well as a bitter commentary on the historical genocide of the indigenous tribes in Latin America and the gradual destruction of their civilization.

Of many variations of the trope, one may recognize the subclasses of the actual interstellar meeting of two civilizations and the " message from space " one.

Thus one trope of converted Muslims ' perception of their own history is the depiction of the pre-Islamic political order as one of rampant exploitation and tyranny, with rulers ordering society according to malign whim rather than in humble subordinance to God's beneficent law for mankind:

An example of a trope is irony, which is the use of words to convey the opposite of their usual meaning (" For Brutus is an honorable man ; / So are they all, all honorable men ").

De viris illustribus, meaning " On Illustrious / Famous Men ", represents a trope of ancient Roman exemplary literature that was revived during the Italian Renaissance and inspired the assembly or commissioning of series of portraits of outstanding men — and sometimes, by the sixteenth century, of outstanding women as well — with a high didactic purpose.