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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
“It became the popular trope that somehow this was a solely American game that, almost in a culturally imperialist way, was imposed on Canadians,” said Bill Humber, perhaps Canada’s most renowned baseball historian.
Then again, it would have been set up a lot better than merely as a horror wannabe’s tour of his favorite tropes.
Young people are also tired of tropes, including love triangles, toxic relationships that become romantic and relationships based mostly on physical attraction.
For months, Fox News has been hammering him, painting the New York assemblyman with Islamophobic tropes, and calling him an anti-semite and a communist.
It’s the crazy wall TV trope realized as a situational comedy, originating from a single pinpoint of Ron’s inability to let go of the smallest slights.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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