trope
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Trope: Man on desert island: Bedraggled castaway is playing solitaire.
From Washington Post • Jan. 21, 2021
Also, when the pope meets Woodhouse, his doppelganger, Archer says, "Trope alert!" and a liberal arts film major gets her wings.
From Slate • Mar. 29, 2013
Psychologist Yaacov Trope argues that psychological distance may be one of the single most important steps you can take to improve thinking and decision-making.
From Scientific American • Jan. 4, 2013
"These people have lived their lives with borrowed money," Trope said at a hearing in March 2010.
From Seattle Times • May 27, 2011
What is true of the English drama is of course equally true of all Continental drama which, like the English drama, had its origin in the Trope and the Miracle Play.
From Dramatic Technique by Baker, George Pierce
Vocabulary lists containing trope
Poetry: Literary Devices
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