trope
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1. language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense (noun.communication)
| hypernym | : | rhetorical device, |
| definition | : | a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | conceit, |
| definition | : | an elaborate poetic image or a far-fetched comparison of very dissimilar things (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | irony, |
| definition | : | a trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | kenning, |
| definition | : | conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | metaphor, |
| definition | : | a figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | metonymy, |
| definition | : | substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads') (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | oxymoron, |
| definition | : | conjoining contradictory terms (as in `deafening silence') (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | personification, prosopopoeia, |
| definition | : | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | simile, |
| definition | : | a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as') (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | synecdoche, |
| definition | : | substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa (noun.communication) |
| hyponym | : | zeugma, |
| definition | : | use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one (noun.communication) |
| domain member usage | : | cakewalk, |
| definition | : | an easy accomplishment (noun.act) |
| domain member usage | : | blind alley, |
| definition | : | (figurative) a course of action that is unproductive and offers no hope of improvement (noun.act) |
| domain member usage | : | blockbuster, megahit, smash hit, |
| definition | : | an unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) (noun.act) |
| domain member usage | : | sleeper, |
| definition | : | an unexpected hit (noun.act) |
| domain member usage | : | housecleaning, |
| definition | : | (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions (noun.act) |
| domain member usage | : | goldbrick, |
| definition | : | anything that is supposed to be valuable but turns out to be worthless (noun.act) |
| domain member usage | : | lens, |
| definition | : | (metaphor) a channel through which something can be seen or understood (noun.communication) |
| domain member usage | : | domino effect, |
| definition | : | the consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall) (noun.phenomenon) |
| domain member usage | : | flip side, |
| definition | : | a different aspect of something (especially the opposite aspect) (noun.linkdef) |
| domain member usage | : | period, |
| definition | : | the end or completion of something (noun.time) |
| domain member usage | : | summer, |
| definition | : | the period of finest development, happiness, or beauty (noun.time) |
| domain member usage | : | dawn, |
| definition | : | an opening time period (noun.time) |
| domain member usage | : | evening, |
| definition | : | a later concluding time period (noun.time) |
| domain member usage | : | rainy day, |
| definition | : | a (future) time of financial need (noun.time) |
| derivation | : | tropical, |
| definition | : | characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense (adj.all) |
| derivation | : | tropical, |
| definition | : | characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes; changed from its literal sense (adj.all) |
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