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trope |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Trope \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: trope n : language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn: {figure of speech}, {figure}, {image}]
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