TROPE
- a. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense b. instance of this
- phrase, sentence, or verse formerly interpolated in a liturgical text to amplify or embellish
- (in the philosophy of Santayana) the principle of organization according to which matter moves to form an object during the various stages of its existence
- to provide with a metaphor [v TROPED, TROPING, TROPES]
- the figurative use of a word [n TROPES]
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