Word Frequency
trope (trəʊp
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Definitions
noun
- (rhetoric) a word or expression used in a figurative sense
- an interpolation of words or music into the plainsong settings of the Roman Catholic liturgy
Word Origin
C16: from Latin tropus figurative use of a word, from Greek tropos style, turn; related to trepein to turnExample Sentences Including 'trope'
) Mr Crouch's favoured rhetorical trope appears to be equating his network with the Lord God Himself.Belfast Telegraph (2004)
Nemo, a clownfish egg, is left motherless (the Bambi trope ) after a marauding barracuda passes by.Globe and Mail (2003)
Perhaps, Stevenson suggests (in a trope that would become familiar in psychoanalysis), they are essentially the same.ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON (2005)
Rick Moody seems to see in him a model for all that is dark and strange in himself, and this trope is briefly interesting.Times, Sunday Times (2002)
This is a novel that handily subverts that ancient trope of the hero's epic quest to regain the precious thing that has been lost.Globe and Mail (2003)
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