What's the difference between archetype and trope?

Archetype


Definition:

  • (n.) The original pattern or model of a work; or the model from which a thing is made or formed.
  • (n.) The standard weight or coin by which others are adjusted.
  • (n.) The plan or fundamental structure on which a natural group of animals or plants or their systems of organs are assumed to have been constructed; as, the vertebrate archetype.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Older women and those who present more archetypically as butch have an easier time of it (because older women in general are often sidelined by the press and society) and because butch women are often viewed as less attractive and tantalising to male editors and readers.
  • (2) As the political pendulum has swung over the decades, these competing archetypes have spurred endless innovations from inflation-linked bonds to free TV licences.
  • (3) Britain is still sending regular reinforcements across the Atlantic, from the new Spider-Man signing ( Tom Holland from Surrey ), to the actors who have recently snatched real-life national archetypes like Abraham Lincoln ( Daniel Day-Lewis ), Ernest Hemingway (Clive Owen) and Martin Luther King (David Oyelowo ) from the grasp of American stars.
  • (4) With portraits of women, asylum seekers and refugees the photographs also go beyond Berger and Mohr's timely but time-limited portrayal of the archetypal migrant being a man seeking work.
  • (5) wearefriendlyfires.com Ceremoniously slow and with a mood of solemn self-satisfaction and reflective pride, the most I can say about this is every note of it is archetypal national anthem fodder.
  • (6) Pauline Kael, when reviewing the film, said, "Jane Fonda has been a charming, witty, nudie cutie in recent years, and now gets a chance at an archetypal character.
  • (7) For many men, Austen is the archetypal women's author – her canvas too domestic, her domain too girly, her men too starchy and conformist, her settings too chintzy and her plots too prim to excite the average male reader.
  • (8) 50% In the dog-whistle rhetoric of Hammond and Theresa May, the archetypal contemporary migrant in Europe is from Africa.
  • (9) Those archetypes, even though Cohn based them on people in London, were obviously happening in New York as well.
  • (10) Firstly, the intervention and example of the archetypal celebrity fairy godmother, Oprah Winfrey.
  • (11) Not fictional archetypes such as Don Draper or Jack Bauer , and certainly not from Robin Thicke .
  • (12) Danny Green plays punchy ex-boxer "One-Round", Peter Sellers's Harry is the archetypal cockney spiv, Cecil Parker's seedy ex-officer Major Courtney a recurrent postwar figure.
  • (13) Photograph: YouTube Bookended by the flooding of the city of New Orleans after 2005’s Hurricane Katrina – and by which the city’s black residents were disproportionately affected – and a black child in a hoodie dancing opposite a police line and a quick cut to graffiti words “stop shooting us”, Beyoncé morphs into several archetypical southern black women.
  • (14) The music and the image had been honed down in the interim – the gear to the archetypal indie look and the music to the almost bubblegum sound which they ply today.
  • (15) Stupid, sadistic, public-school educated, a former Black and Tan and one-time professional strikebreaker in the United States, "wanted in New Orleans for the murder of a coloured woman", it's tempting to see him as a satirical portrait of the archetypal hero of the moribund thrillers that Ambler was so determined to supersede, unmasked and revealed for the cryptofascist brute he really is.
  • (16) Kerry Brown, a professor of Chinese politics at the University of Sydney, suggests the association with Zhao, and its archetypally American image, may have helped to give the sport "a certain negative flavour".
  • (17) A questionnaire was developed to assess adult recall for a range of transpersonal experiences throughout childhood and adolescence (mystical experience, out-of-body experience, lucid dreams, archetypal dreams, ESP), as well as nightmares and night terrors as indicators of more conflicted, negative states.
  • (18) Bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) is a new disease of cattle which has considerable homology with scrapie, the archetype of the transmissible spongiform encephalopathies.
  • (19) Rendered in these cool, clean strokes, with efficiency and noninvolvement as the hallmarks of the type, The Day Of The Jackal's decision to tell the viewer nothing substantive about its assassin's personality, inner life, or convictions, was a virtual invitation to other film-makers and writers to fill in the gaps, to search for unexpected dramatic and comic possibilities in the unexamined background of the hitman archetype and to make hay with all their potential.
  • (20) Most of these clones contained regulatory sequences essentially identical to the archetypal regulatory sequence.

Trope


Definition:

  • (n.) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech.
  • (n.) The word or expression so used.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For further education, this would be my priority: a substantial increase in funding and an end to tinkering with the form of qualifications and bland repetition of the “parity of esteem” trope.
  • (2) Arguing for a new nation state, the white paper understands that the old tropes of nationhood will no longer do, though until recently they sustained the anglophobic tendency of everyday nationalism, though until recently they sustained the anglophobic tendency of everyday nationalism.
  • (3) Ihave never really liked the liberal-left trope of Britain's "progressive majority", lately talked up by people campaigning for AV .
  • (4) Ivens's apology was issued after a meeting with Jewish community organisations including the Board of the Deputies of British Jews, which had complained to the Press Complaints Commission on Sunday, describing the cartoon as "appalling" and "all the more disgusting" for being published on Holocaust Memorial Day, "given the similar tropes levelled against Jews by the Nazis".
  • (5) As the report explains, researchers have long pointed to a widely believed cultural script of what constitutes a “real” rape – the trope of the lone lady being attacked at night as she made her way home through dark alleys.
  • (6) Purnell has long argued it is time to discard the old tropes of Brownite and Blairite.
  • (7) Melgaard pays poor lip service to these racist tropes, arguing that "racism is a form of sexuality.
  • (8) By focusing on Spock and Kirk as novices finding their footing, and putting their gut-vs-logic dynamic at the heart of the film, Abrams gives non-followers plenty to hang on to, but also pays homage to familiar Trek tropes: Bones says: "I'm a doctor, not a physicist!
  • (9) Her main project is new girl Tai (the late Brittany Murphy) who arrives at school as a clumsy, unconfident "ugly duckling" ripe for making over – allowing the film to indulge in that wonderful 80s teen movie trope: the dressing up montage.
  • (10) Instead, we returned to the old political tropes: a prime minister outside Downing street, backbenchers grousing on rolling news channels, financial experts delighted outside City buildings and Nigel Farage on College Green, standing outside the palace he wants to get in.
  • (11) You know you are desperate for ratings when you are willing to violate the law to push a story about two pages of tax returns from over a decade ago,” it said in a statement emailed to journalists with unusual zeal and which also repeated the Trump trope of “the dishonest media”.
  • (12) All these silly tropes appear in the first episode of My Transsexual Summer, Channel 4's new primetime reality doc .
  • (13) It takes the usual prison TV tropes of bent screws, lesbian affairs, claustrophobic pettiness and racial divides, and makes them seem fresh, skewing our perspectives in unexpected ways.
  • (14) Trump and his appeal embody certain universal tropes about bullying, humiliation and comedy.
  • (15) And the presence of the miniature handwritten note on textured paper is so Andersonesque as to make this essentially a trope magnified by a trope.
  • (16) It’s a trope that often plays an important part in the narrative of zombie stories.
  • (17) Recent months have seen a number of white, A-list pop artists such as Lily Allen, Iggy Azalea and Taylor Swift come under fire for appropriating black music tropes and perpetuating damaging stereotypes.
  • (18) It is a favoured trope of Nigel Farage and his fellow-travellers that the “Westminster elite” doesn’t want to talk about immigration.
  • (19) Is there a danger that – using the now-standard tropes of a strong sense of place, a dysfunctional detective, a haunting soundtrack and brutal crimes – the series will be seen as just another exercise in noir?
  • (20) No doubt it will soon make a comeback, but for now the “reform is stuck” trope has descended into an unedifying and largely evidence-free “debate” over penalty rates .