Definitions for trope

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Spelling: [trohp]

IPA: /troʊp/

Trope is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 80 anagrams from letters in trope (eoprt).

Definitions for trope

noun

1. Rhetoric. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. an instance of this. Compare figure of speech.
2. a phrase, sentence, or verse formerly interpolated in a liturgical text to amplify or embellish.
3. (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.

Origin of trope

1525-35; Latin tropus figure in rhetoric Greek trópos turn, turning, turn or figure of speech, akin to trépein to turn

Examples for trope

As such, they emphatically demonstrate the accuracy of the “no risk to public” trope.

Bene, satis, male,— Where was I with my trope 'bout one in a quag?

The turn of expression is called a trope, and change of construction is called a Schema.

For rhetoric, he could not ope / His mouth, but out there flew a trope.

Rage and despair do sometimes vent themselves in hyperbole and trope.

Kent Sepkowitz explains why the ‘the tryptophan in turkey means sleep’ trope persists, despite multiple debunkings.

I put it as delicately as I could to my hosts, using the “some people say” trope common on cable news.

It is not a prop, or a trope, or a tool to be used either on the world stage or in spittle-flecked op-eds.

You must listen to the definition of a catachresis:—'A catachresis is the boldest of any trope.

On the Internet we call the inevitability of this trope “Rule 63.”