Category:Trope

Trope, n. Etym: [l. tropus, gr. 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. In his frequent, long, and tedious speeches, it has been said that a Trope never passed his lips. Bancroft.

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.