Thesaurus / trope
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synonyms for trope
- 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
- figure
- idea
- impression
- notion
- perception
- thought
- vision
- apprehension
- conceit
- conception
- construct
- intellection
- phantasm
- mental picture
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How to use trope in a sentence
For San Diego to move in an exciting new direction, we need bold leadership to stand up and call out fear-mongering instead of giving in to tired tropes about the people “coming for your neighborhood.”
OPPONENTS OF MEASURE E (AND MORE HOUSING) WANT YOU TO BE VERY, VERY AFRAIDMARISSA TUCKER-BORQUEZOCTOBER 9, 2020VOICE OF SAN DIEGOThe trope is so common among actual travelers that the double-decker creation accounts for a significant proportion of hotels’ room service sales.
LONG LIVE THE ROOM-SERVICE CLUB SANDWICHRAFAEL TONONOCTOBER 9, 2020EATERBy using straightforward language accented with in-person dialogue, Johnson is demonstrating that no restaurant “has” to lean on tired tropes to express flavor.
WHY DO FAST-CASUAL RESTAURANTS GET A PASS ON APPROPRIATION?JENNY DORSEYOCTOBER 5, 2020EATERI grew up in the late 1980s and 90s, when the trope of the diabolical home invader was in full force.
‘ALL ABOUT EVE’ AT 70TOM JOUDREYSEPTEMBER 25, 2020WASHINGTON BLADEAs Lili Loofbourow wrote for the Week in 2017, part of the reason Selin has problems with cultural tropes — with the semiotics of cosmopolitan American college students — is that she’s bicultural.
THE TRUE LOVE STORY IN ELIF BATUMAN’S THE IDIOT IS A LOVE AFFAIR WITH LANGUAGECONSTANCE GRADYSEPTEMBER 11, 2020VOXIt's a hard word, but I've sure-ly heard her say he-li-o-trope sach-et.
PAGES FOR LAUGHING EYESUNKNOWNThus the rhetorical trope which is called surprise, is similar to that of music termed the declining of a cadence.
NOVUM ORGANUMFRANCIS BACONThus, in trying to account for her to himself, did the honest Lackaday flounder from trope to metaphor.
THE MOUNTEBANKWILLIAM J. LOCKEAllegoria, the seconde parte of Trope is an inuersion of wordes, where it is one in wordes, and another in sentence or meanynge.
A TREATISE OF SCHEMES AND TROPESRICHARD SHERRYThough we could well have spared that Kembleian dying trope, his rising up and falling again.
THE MIRROR OF TASTE, AND DRAMATIC CENSORSAMUEL JAMES ARNOLDWORDS RELATED TO TROPE
- 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
- trope
- tropology
- turn of phrase
- understatement
- way of speaking
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.