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noun
- 1. a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression: "perhaps it is a mistake to use tropes and parallels in this eminently unpoetic age"
verb
- 1. create a trope.
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Use of figurative language – via word, phrase, or even an image – for artistic effect
A literary trope is the use of figurative language, via word, phrase or an image, for artistic effect such as using a figure of speech. Keith and Lundburg describe a trope as "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase". The word trope has also undergone a semantic change and now also describes commonly recurring or overused literary and rhetorical devices, motifs or clich... Wikipedia