When teaching a child to speak, an idea is repeated in many ways , each being a trope for the idea, so that the metaphor idea being built contains many examples, which are overlaid like transparencies on each other until a recognizable pattern is built in the child's mind.  Imagine teaching a child with a blank slate. You point to a chair and say "chair". What is he to understand? is the act of pointing a chair? The object pointed to? Or perhaps chair means you want him to sit. As you point to different chairs, he associates the word with the visual tropes for the idea of a chair. If instead you were to sit in the chair while saying "chair", and push him into the chair while you said "chair", he would learn the word as trope for the idea of a command to sit.

An example of this the fractal expansion of an letter or idea is the aleph which has the meaning is a trope for 'God spoke and created the heavens and the earth."  This idea is repeated in the first word; bereshit 'In the beginning': 'a revelation to man ב. It is revealed ר that God spoke and created the heavens and the earth א. His word did not return void ש. What he wished to accomplish י was completed ת.' The first word is a trope for the same idea as the aleph.  The first sentence repeats the idea: Ge 1:1 ¶ In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. The first sentence is a trope for the same idea. The first chapter repeats it again telling how God created the heavens and the earth. The first chapter is a trope of the same idea. And each day is like a table of contents entry pointing to a larger section of scripture (which is divided into six portions) such that the whole book tells how God created the heavens and the earth. The whole book is a trope of the same idea. It is pretty clear that God wants us to understand that he is the creator <ref>Ro 1:18ff</ref>