Trope Synonyms

trōp
Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. figure-of-speech
  2. metaphor
  3. analogy
  4. figure
  5. image

Words Related to Trope

Related words are words that are directly connected to each other through their meaning, even if they are not synonyms or antonyms. This connection may be general or specific, or the words may appear frequently together.

Related:

  1. comparison
  2. simile
  3. archaism
  4. archetype
  5. poetic-language
  6. topos
  7. signifier
  8. intertextuality
  9. hypertextuality
  10. meta-narrative

Trope Sentence Examples

  • Of course, the car chase is a standard trope of the Hollywood film, never the traffic jam.

  • Moving from vampires to aliens, she turns the trope of "aliens among us" into interesting scifi through her skill at bringing the characters to life and making the reader care.

  • Scientists and physicians saw nudism not as a return to Eden (although this trope certainly occurred in nudist writing), but as a path forward to a shining new modernity in which science, rather than superstition, would lead the way.

  • This is a poetic way of thinking about it, via the poetic trope of personification.

  • The alien invasion trope includes occupation, infiltration, raids and combinations thereof.

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