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Antonyms
Etymology
1. trope
noun. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
Synonyms
- figure of speech
- kenning
- oxymoron
- image
- conceit
- prosopopoeia
- personification
- rhetorical device
- irony
- zeugma
- exaggeration
- metonymy
- figure
- simile
- metaphor
- synecdoche
Antonyms
- sarcastic
- unsarcastic
- congruousness
- congruity
Etymology
- tropus (Latin)
- τρόπος (Ancient Greek (to 1453))
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Sentences with trope
1. Noun, singular or mass
The notion that a calorie from one source is just as fattening as a calorie from any other source is a trope broadcast by the food industry as a way to absolve itself of culpability.