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trope n. 修辞,比喻 修辞,比喻 trope n 1: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [ synonym: { trope}, { figure of speech}, { figure}, { image}] Trope \ Trope\, n. [ L. tropus, Gr. ?, fr. ? to turn. See { Torture}, and cf. { Trophy}, { Tropic}, { Troubadour}, { Trover}.] ( Rhet.) ( a) The use of a word or expression in a different sense from that which properly belongs to it; the use of a word or expression as changed from the original signification to another, for the sake of giving life or emphasis to an idea; a figure of speech. ( b) The word or expression so used. [ 1913 Webster] In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a trope never passed his lips. -- Bancroft. [ 1913 Webster] Note: Tropes are chiefly of four kinds: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony. Some authors make figures the genus, of which trope is a species; others make them different things, defining trope to be a change of sense, and figure to be any ornament, except what becomes so by such change. [ 1913 Webster]
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