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looked up "trope" in The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics, Dictionary of Untranslatables, Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, and Encyclopedia of Postmodernism. So I didn't know it means something totally different to Derrida-heads like HL Gates then it means in either old-school rhetoric or in philosophy. i learned the word in its Jewish meaning, where a trope is a bit of melody for singing the torah.