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trope
noun
(trope)
language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Synonyms:
figure
, figure of speech,
image
,
Words Related to
trope
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image
,
figure
,
figure of speech
,
cliche
,
archetype
,
metaphor
,
narrative
,
allegory
,
phrase
,
truism
,
idiom
,
myth
,
subtext
,
stereotype
,
metonymy
,
metafiction
,
euphemism
,
conceit
,
tropist
,
shibboleth
,
attitudinizing
,
aphorism
,
axiom
,
neologism
,
literalism
,
meme
,
fable
,
mythologies
,
locution
,
moralism
,
maxim
,
shtick
,
iconography
,
orientalism
,
illogic
,
solipsism
,
tropology
,
sanctimoniousness
,
deracination
,
plotline
,
excrescence
,
historicism
,
epigram
,
leitmotif
,
bildungsroman
,
moralizer
,
dictum
,
mythos
,
canard
,
absurdism
,
conventionality
,
dogma
,
claptrap
,
malthusianism
,
notions
,
parable
,
commonplaces
,
worldview
,
motif
,
demonology
,
obtuseness
,
murderousness
,
sophistries
,
schtick
,
tautologies
,
incubus
,
tu quoque
,
dialectic
,
phantasm
,
signifier
,
pompousness
,
essentialism
,
patriarchies
,
buncombe
,
paradigm
,
ism
,
pietism
,
telos
,
insubstantiality
,
abstract noun
,
archaism
,
idealization
,
nostrum
,
onanism
,
speciousness
,
sophism
,
noble savage
,
literalness
,
unnaturalness
,
revisionism
,
supernaturalism
,
premise
,
expostulation
,
sendup
,
mantras
,
primitivism
,
idealisation
,
incuriosity
,
themes
,
romanticization
,
trope
Examples by Brain Bank Users
By: Jamie
From:
Words in the News - December 2018
two-Americas. This is a trope because there is one way America acts at home, and another way it acts internationally.
'the mad scientist'
a metaphor is a trope, but trope also can be more than just a metaphor.