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Trope - Dictionary Definition and Overview |
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Trope : \Trope\, n. [L. tropus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn. See
Torture, and cf. Trophy, Tropic, Troubadour,
Trover.] (Rhet.)
(a) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from
that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or
expression as changed from the original signification to
another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an
idea; a figure of speech.
(b) The word or expression so used.
In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has
been said that a trope never passed his lips.
--Bancroft.
Note: Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy,
synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the
genus, of which trope is a species; others make them
different things, defining trope to be a change of
sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what
becomes so by such change.
Based on WordNet (r) 2.0 (August 2003)
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Example Usage of Trope |
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iamDc: @Joanniiee__ zeg maar schuint tegenover de albert hijn!!.. Niet richting maccie maar richting Trope museum |
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yasuhiton: @kino_Trope うーん、何にしようかな。鶏のつくねとかどうかな。 |
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princesscowboy: New Blog Post "Time Jumping TV: The Most Annoying TV Trope of 2009" [would love ur thoughts]: http://wp.me/pBUbf-eE |
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