Trope Synonyms

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Synonyms for Trope

figure-of-speech
(Idiomatic) A word or phrase that departs from straightforward, literal language.
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figure
A visible pattern as in wood or cloth.
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metaphor
(Uncountable, rhetoric) The use of a word or phrase to refer to something that it isn't, invoking a direct similarity between the word or phrase used and the thing described, but in the case of English without the words like or as, which would imply a simile.
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image
(--- Bible) A sculptured figure used as an idol
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analogy
(Biology) Correspondence in function or position between organs of dissimilar evolutionary origin or structure.
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Words Related to Trope

simile
A figure of speech in which one thing is likened to another, dissimilar thing by the use of like, as, etc. (Ex.: a heart as big as a whale, her tears flowed like wine)
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archetype
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topos
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hypertextuality
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comparison
A statement or estimate of similarities and differences.
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allegory
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signifier
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meta-narrative
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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.

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

  • Finally, a narrative reading of Isaiah 53 was offered, with a focus on the literary trope of personification.

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