tropology

Meaning

Noun

• The use of a trope (metaphor or figure of speech).
• The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.
• A recurring motif or metaphor, a trope; an interplay of tropes.

Origin

• From Late Latin tropologia, from Late Greek τροπολογία, equivalent to trope + -ology.