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Often used in the same context:
conceit,
cliche,
archetype,
shibboleth,
attitudinizing,
aphorism,
axiom,
neologism,
metaphor,
truism,
narrative,
literalism,
meme,
fable,
mythologies,
locution,
moralism,
maxim,
myth,
shtick,
iconography,
orientalism,
illogic,
allegory,
solipsism,
phrase,
sanctimoniousness,
deracination,
plotline,
excrescence,
historicism,
epigram,
metonymy,
leitmotif,
bildungsroman,
moralizer,
dictum,
idiom,
mythos,
canard,
absurdism,
conventionality,
dogma,
subtext,
claptrap,
malthusianism,
notions,
parable,
commonplaces,
worldview,
stereotype,
motif,
demonology,
obtuseness,
murderousness,
sophistries,
schtick,
tautologies,
incubus,
tu quoque,
dialectic,
phantasm,
signifier,
pompousness,
essentialism,
patriarchies,
buncombe,
paradigm,
ism,
pietism,
telos,
metafiction,
insubstantiality,
abstract noun,
archaism,
idealization,
nostrum,
onanism,
speciousness,
sophism,
noble savage,
literalness,
unnaturalness,
revisionism,
supernaturalism,
premise,
expostulation,
sendup,
mantras,
primitivism,
idealisation,
incuriosity,
themes,
romanticization,
abjection,
loathsomeness,
euphemism,
bogyman,
postfeminist,
anecdote,
contrivance,
tenet,
tropes,
theme,
topos,
topoi,
genre,
tactic,
touchstone,
genres,
symbol,
metaphors,
motifs,
exemplar
More specific:
exaggeration,
hyperbole,
irony,
kenning,
metaphor,
metonymy,
oxymoron,
personification,
prosopopoeia,
simile,
synecdoche,
zeugma
Appears in the definition of:
irony,
tropical
More general:
rhetorical device
Synonyms:
figure,
figure of speech,
image
Also try:
— Adjectives for trope:
common,
rhetorical,
central,
familiar,
literary,
dominant,
standard,
key,
powerful,
cultural,
major,
more...
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