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 trope /ˈtrop/
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 Trope n.  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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 trope
      n : language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn: figure
          of speech, figure, image]