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Meanings of trope in English

Portuguese
metáfora
Catalan
trop
Spanish
imagen

Language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.

        metáfora
        Russian
        троп
        Portuguese
        tropo
        Spanish
        tropo
        Catalan
        trop

        Use of figurative language – via word, phrase, or even an image – for artistic effect.

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                Usage of trope in English
                1
                However, this standard Silicon Valley trope was met with instantaneous backlash Monday.
                Wired
                2
                But the SBW trope does not allow for that type of flexibility.
                Ebony
                3
                In a different and unintended sense, the trope couldn't be more apt.
                Reuters
                4
                I can't think of any other director who has employed this trope.
                The Irish Times
                5
                Dunne's enthusiasm for a renaissance isn't just some sort of dramatic trope.
                The Irish Times
                6
                Reverting to a happier, nostalgic time is a classic trope of infantilism.
                The Irish Times
                7
                So that's a more modern rendition of the same kind of trope.
                Wired
                8
                It's kind of a trope, a sort of poetic allusion, you see.
                Act of will
                9
                Only one show has ever truly done justice to this silly trope.
                Wired
                10
                This is a feature of the trope of black bodies killing themselves.
                The Guardian
                11
                Okay sidebar, I hate the whole 10 percent of our brains trope.
                Wired
                12
                Children going missing is becoming another lazy trope; a route-one shortcut to tragedy.
                The Guardian
                13
                You clearly know the difference between a Pov and a repetition-avoiding language trope.
                The Guardian
                14
                Print media largely stuck to this trope as a news story.
                The Irish Times
                15
                As recently as 2018, there was a very popular trope about Jacob Zuma.
                The South African
                16
                They also fulfil the standard trope equating Nazism with extreme kinkiness.
                The Guardian
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                Translations for trope
                Catalan
                tropimatge
                Russian
                троп
                Trope through the time
                Trope across language varieties
                United States of America
                Common
                United Kingdom
                Common