What does trope mean?

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https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/trope

 

trope

NOUN

  • 1A figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression.

    ‘both clothes and illness became tropes for new attitudes toward the self’
    ‘my sense that philosophy has become barren is a recurrent trope of modern philosophy’
    ‘perhaps it is a mistake to use tropes and parallels in this eminently unpoetic age’
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    1. 1.1 A significant or recurrent theme; a motif.
      ‘she uses the Eucharist as a pictorial trope’
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Origin

Mid 16th century: via Latin from Greek tropos ‘turn, way, trope’, from trepein ‘to turn’.

Pronunciation

trope

/trəʊp/

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