Definition for Trope:

• A figure of speech.

Synonyms for Trope:

• n.

  •
  • characterization,
  • allegory,
  • bathos,
  • establish,
  • analogy,
  • Deus Ex Machina,
  • comparison,
  • dialog,
  • dialogue,
  • anthropomorphic,
  • simile,
  • dramatic irony,
  • device.
  •figure of speech (noun)
  • hyperbole,
  • alliteration,
  • onomatopoeias,
  • personification,
  • conceit,
  • parallel,
  • euphemism,
  • Ellipses,
  • expression,
  • satire,
  • flower,
  • turn of phrase,
  • allusion,
  • litotes,
  • malapropisms,
  • onomatopoeia,
  • manner of speaking,
  • exaggeration,
  • paradox,
  • anticlimax,
  • ornament,
  • irony,
  • analogue,
  • rhetoric,
  • alliterations,
  • metonymies,
  • communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device,
  • oxymoron,
  • malapropism,
  • sarcasm,
  • echoism,
  • tropes,
  • metonymy,
  • anaphora,
  • way of speaking,
  • imagery,
  • adumbration,
  • antistrophe,
  • Tropology,
  • euphuism,
  • understatement,
  • oxymora,
  • Asyndeton,
  • apostrophes,
  • ellipsis,
  • proteron,
  • aposiopesis,
  • antithesis,
  • synecdoche,
  • parable,
  • flourish,
  • apostrophe.
  •image (noun)
  • idea,
  • thought,
  • perception,
  • impression,
  • construct,
  • conception,
  • vision,
  • apprehension,
  • Phantasm,
  • notion,
  • figure.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • figure of speech,
  • image,
  • intellection,
  • mental picture,
  • metaphor,
  • rhetorical device,
  • similitude,
  • intellections,
  • mental pictures.

Antonyms for Trope:

• n.

  • image
    concrete, entity.
  • metaphor
    plain speech.
  • Other antonyms:
    profundity.

Trope Sentence Examples:

• 73. " It is of little importance whether we give to some particular mode of expression the name of a trope, or of a figure."