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trope

noun as in image

noun as in metaphor

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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.”

The trope is so common among actual travelers that the double-decker creation accounts for a significant proportion of hotels’ room service sales.

From Eater

By using straightforward language accented with in-person dialogue, Johnson is demonstrating that no restaurant “has” to lean on tired tropes to express flavor.

From Eater

I grew up in the late 1980s and 90s, when the trope of the diabolical home invader was in full force.

As 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.

From Vox

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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