Tropes in that context are all the ways that a writer or speaker can use nonliteral language to get their ideas across and evoke the response they want. More recently, however, the word trope has come to describe certain conventions of fictional genres in narratives such as books, movies, ...
There are two definitions for tropes. It is another term for afigure of speech. It is also arhetoricaldevice that produces a shift in themeaningsof words — in contrast to ascheme, which changes only the shape of a phrase. Also calledfigure of thought. According to somerhetoricians, t...
In fiction,tropesare familiar motifs, like avillainexplaining their evil plan to the hero or a simple misunderstanding creating enough drama to fuel an entire story. Tropes can exist alongside archetypes, but while an archetype is a template for a story element, a trope is a plot point found ...
Therefore by occluding infantile esotropes children under one year of age, are we affecting the prognosis for future BSV? We report a retrospective analysis of the effects of part-time and full-time occlusion on 317 patients studied over 15 years. Of the 317 patients, 232 were occluded. We ...
Above all else, AI is an idea—an ideal—shaped by worldviews and sci-fi tropes as much as by math and computer science. Figuring out what we are talking about when we talk about AI will clarify many things. We won’t agree on them, but common ground on what AIiswould be a great...
As the first month of 2016 draws to a close, we decided to tap into our network and ask an esteemed group of architects, critics, theorists and educators to tell us what they are looking forward to this year in architecture. What are you looking forward to in architecture this year? Sa...
Angeles.In my review, I wrote that“even if it is a somewhat convoluted and silly mishmash of familiar tropes and sci-fi cliches, it still evokes the feeling of something fresh, something novel, something exciting to experience and behold — which is so ...
What is a trope in politics?Question:What is a trope in politics?Tropes:People encounter tropes in all walks of life, particularly when engaging with any type of narrative form of information. This can include books, movies, television, and even media reports about current events.Answer...
in century-old science fiction tales is that the tropes of the genre, chief among them dramatic depictions of artificial intelligence as an existential threat to humans, are buried deep in our collective psyche. Human-AI teaming, or keeping humans in any process that is being substantially ...
(4) What are your favorite series in genres you *dislike*? What books are so good that they defy your resistance to their genre? Graham liking IDW’s D&D is one example…any others? How about from sci-fi, Western, Gothic horror, Lovecraftian horror, pulp, etc.?