tropable

comparative more tropable · superlative most tropable

1. That can be troped or is subject to tropes.

   Contributors who have found a candidate for a trope are encouraged to submit it to the Trope Launch Pad, and to discuss in the community whether it is “tropable” or not.

   2016, C Rughinis, “Citizen science, gallaxies and tropes: Knowledge creation in impromptu crowd science movements”, in Networking in Education and Research

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   But if we agree with Stevens that Tennessee nature is tropable as wilderness and with the Modern Language Association's advertisements for its 2001 convention that New Orleans' climate is "tropical," from which we might reasonably infer its nature is tropable as jungle, then Mississippi, perhaps especially north Mississippi, does constitute such a liminal space.

   2003 Fall, Jon Smith, “Hot Bodies and "Barbaric Tropics": The US South and New World Natures”, in The Southern Literary Journal, volume 36, number 1, pages 108–109

   Exploiting the visual rhetoric of the page, the spatial hiatus between the two hemistichs mimetically distances utterance from intention, and encourages readers to treat the speaking 'I' less as a confessional vessel than a reusable, tropable token, a rhetorical posture or per-sona—an assumed 'mask' to 'sound through'.

   2012, Chris Stamatakis, Sir Thomas Wyatt and the Rhetoric of Rewriting: 'Turning the Word', →ISBN