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1. mecaz. mecaz, kinaye. mecaz. mecaz. mecaz, kinaye.
2. mecaz, metne ilave; i, kinaye, kon san mecaz.
3. mecaz. kinaye.
4. mecaz. kinaye. benzetme.
5. mecaz.

Etymology : Latin tropus, from Greek tropos turn, way, manner, style, trope, from trepein to turn
Pronunciation : 'trOp
Function : noun
Date : 1533

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1. figure of speech, any rhetorical device in which words are used not in accordance with their literal meaning; phrase interpolated into a text for purposes of emphasis (Literature). trope\trope\ , n. [l. tropus, gr. , fr. to turn. see: 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.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.trope language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense [syn: figure of speech , figure, image].
2. 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.
3. The word or expression so used. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense.
4. words, phrases, images etc that are used for an unusual or interesting effect (tropus, from tropos , from trepein ).