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What does tropology mean?

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  1. (rhetoric) The use of a trope (metaphor or figure of speech).
  2. (theology) The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.
  3. A recurring motif or metaphor, a trope; an interplay of tropes.
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The tangibility here of both the metaphor and the simile is typical of Thomas's tropology, as he resets the poem's tone and, figuratively, its location.
Where the syntax of propositions is broken, we see a very general principle of tropology that grants a priori that things like texts are replacements of things like authors.
Barrie's poignant attempt at ghost whispering to be trenching on the Gothic, that's because it ties into a long generic and historical convention of Gothic tropology.
In the fifth and final chapter, Harkins turns to tropology, the moral reading of scripture.
As soon as exegesis of the Old Testament becomes an issue necessary to daily reading of Scripture, typology becomes of far greater importance than tropology.
He must distinguish the historical information from the allegory, divide the allegory from the tropology, and separate the tropology from the anagogy.

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