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Trope

noun
1.
Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.  Synonyms: figure, figure of speech, image.






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"Trope" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the grove. He lived there for forty-nine days, we are told, under the great fig-tree by the river. And the fig-tree has become sacred for ever because he sat there and because there he found the truth. We are told of it all in wonderful trope and imagery—of his last fight over ...
— The Soul of a People • H. Fielding



Words linked to "Trope" :   blind alley, oxymoron, housecleaning, bell ringer, metaphor, flip side, kenning, hyperbole, zeugma, evening, period, synecdoche, bull's eye, domino effect, lens, megahit, cakewalk, smash hit, blockbuster, tropical, summer, goldbrick, simile, conceit, sleeper, rainy day, mark, irony, home run, rhetorical device, prosopopoeia, dawn, metonymy, personification, exaggeration



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