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Trope

Posted byBrian Hopkins May 22, 2019

A word or an expression used figuratively of what is considered to be the literal or normal form, object or event. There are four different classes of tropes: metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, with analogy and simile being sub-classes of metaphor and synecdoche of metonymy. 

See Analogy, Metaphor, Metonymy, Synecdoche

Posted byBrian HopkinsMay 22, 2019Posted inUncategorizedTags: glossary

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