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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
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noun as in metaphor
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Example Sentences
As such, they emphatically demonstrate the accuracy of the “no risk to public” trope.
It is a common trope in pop culture, be it movies or TV, that straight men loooove girl-on-girl action.
To what extent she is trapped in an eternal royal trope or willing participant is only something she knows.
And a stock trope, the “bed trick,” that many of the nerds watching probably knew dates back to the legend of King Arthur.
How contrived that Modern Family would end its season finale with the tried-and-true sitcom trope: a wedding.
It's a hard word, but I've sure-ly heard her say he-li-o-trope sach-et.
Thus the rhetorical trope which is called surprise, is similar to that of music termed the declining of a cadence.
Thus, in trying to account for her to himself, did the honest Lackaday flounder from trope to metaphor.
Allegoria, the seconde parte of Trope is an inuersion of wordes, where it is one in wordes, and another in sentence or meanynge.
Though we could well have spared that Kembleian dying trope, his rising up and falling again.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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