Trope: alternatives and connections

That which is conceived, imagined, or formed in the mind; idea; thought; image; conception.

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The act of heaping or piling up.

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A figure of speech in which the expression is an evident exaggeration of the meaning intended to be conveyed, or by which things are represented as m…

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A vivid, picturesque description of scenes or events.

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Made or consisting of iron; partaking of iron; iron; as, irony chains; irony particles.

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of Ken

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The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship…

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A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that…

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A figure in which an epithet of a contrary signification is added to a word; e. g., cruel kindness; laborious idleness.

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The act of personifying; impersonation; embodiment.

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A word or phrase by which anything is likened, in one or more of its aspects, to something else; a similitude; a poetical or imaginative comparison.

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A figure or trope by which a part of a thing is put for the whole (as, fifty sail for fifty ships), or the whole for a part (as, the smiling year for…

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A figure by which an adjective or verb, which agrees with a nearer word, is, by way of supplement, referred also to another more remote; as, "hic ill…

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The form of anything; shape; outline; appearance.

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An imitation, representation, or similitude of any person, thing, or act, sculptured, drawn, painted, or otherwise made perceptible to the sight; a v…

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