Definitions for "Tropes"
The markings called cantillation above or below each word in the Torah indicating the musical chant and emphasis assigned to that word. These indicate the proper way to chant the Torah, the Haftara and the Megilla each of which have their own Trope. They do not appear in the Torah scroll. They go back to Temple times.
(also known as FIGURES OF SPEECH) Involves a change or transference of a word's meaning and from the literal to the imaginative plane.