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trope
noun as in figure of speech
Weak matches
- adumbration
- allegory
- alliteration
- allusion
- analogue
- analogy
- anaphora
- anticlimax
- antistrophe
- antithesis
- aposiopesis
- apostrophe
- asyndeton
- bathos
- comparison
- conceit
- device
- echoism
- ellipsis
- euphemism
- euphuism
- exaggeration
- expression
- flourish
- flower
- hyperbole
- image
- imagery
- irony
- litotes
- malapropism
- manner of speaking
- metaphor
- metonymy
- onomatopoeia
- ornament
- oxymoron
- parable
- paradox
- parallel
- personification
- proteron
- rhetoric
- sarcasm
- satire
- simile
- stylistic device
- synecdoche
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
noun as in image
Strongest matches
Weak match
noun as in metaphor
Strong matches
Example Sentences
Though the series was inspired by Manning’s stunt, it’s fed by some well-traveled, conventional tropes.
Wendy thwarts that in accordance with the third trope: the hero returning to save someone weaker than she is.
He says the issue of leaves on the line "has become a trope of British railways" but it actually affects railways across the world.
Platforms have filled with conspiracy theories, racist tropes and threats of violence all week.
The interviews that followed, laced with antisemitic tropes about Jewish control of media and money.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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