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TROPES
Noun
tropes
plural of trope
Verb
tropes
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of trope
Anagrams
• Presto, Strope, e-sport, eSport, esport, opster, opters, petros, poster, presto, repost, repots, respot, sprote, topers
Source: Wiktionary
TROPE
Trope, n. Etym: [L. tropus, Gr. 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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
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