Defenition of the word trope

• Defenition of the word trope

  • A rhetorical figure of speech in which a word or phrase is used other than in a literal manner.
  • language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

Synonyms for the word trope

• • figure
  • figure of speech
  • image

Hyponyms for the word trope

• • conceit
  • exaggeration
  • hyperbole
  • irony
  • kenning
  • metaphor
  • metonymy
  • oxymoron
  • personification
  • prosopopoeia
  • simile
  • synecdoche
  • zeugma

Hypernyms for the word trope

• • rhetorical device

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