About The Word Trope
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Trope
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What's The Definition Of Trope?
[n] language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
Synonyms | Synonyms for Trope: figure | figure of speech | image Related Terms | Find terms related to Trope: See Also | exaggeration | hyperbole | irony | kenning | metaphor | metonymy | oxymoron | personification | prosopopoeia | rhetorical device | simile | synecdoche | zeugma Trope In Webster's Dictionary \Trope\, n. [L. tropus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn. See
{Torture}, and cf. {Trophy}, {Tropic}, {Troubadour},
{Trover}.] (Rhet.)
(a) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from
that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or
expression as changed from the original signification to
another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an
idea; a figure of speech.
(b) The word or expression so used.
In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has
been said that a trope never passed his lips.
--Bancroft.
Note: Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy,
synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the
genus, of which trope is a species; others make them
different things, defining trope to be a change of
sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what
becomes so by such change.
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