Words and phrases that have a meaning related to trope: (130 results)
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, oxymoron, personification, prosopopoeia, simile, synecdoche, zeugma
More general:
rhetorical device
Synonyms:
Also try:figure, figure of speech, image
— Adjectives for trope: common, rhetorical, central, familiar, literary, dominant, standard, key, powerful, cultural, major, more...
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