troper

/ˈtɹəʊ.pə/

Etymology

From trope + -er.

Why this word is great

**TROPER** — Noun. One who engages with tropes, either as a contributor to the wiki *TV Tropes*, a compiler of liturgical verses, or a cataloger of narrative conventions. From *trope* ("a figurative or thematic device") + *-er* (agent noun suffix). Unlike a *tropist* (who employs tropes in rhetoric) or a *lexicographer* (who documents words), a *troper* thrives in the digital undergrowth, tracking Chosen Ones, Chekhov's Guns, and Lampshade Hangings with the precision of a scribe and the passion of a bard. They are the unsung cartographers of storytelling's hidden pathways, where every new tale is an old trope reborn.

noun

  1. One who tropes.
  2. A book of tropes (phrases or verses added to the Mass when sung by a choir).
  3. A contributor to the wiki website TV Tropes.“Since its [TV Tropes’] founding in 2004, more than 42,000 people have volunteered to be “tropers” like Barbara—a mixture of fans, writers, educators and amateur academics smitten by pop culture and accessing their inner Joseph Campbell. […] There’s a section called “Troper Tales,” about the ways tropes have shown up in the tropers’ real lives. […] He [Fast Eddie] thought up the site [TV Tropes] du”