| trope definitions |
| # | Definition | Sets |
| 1 | artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech | 13 sets |
| 2 | figure of speech | 10 sets |
| 3 | turn | 9 sets |
| 4 | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense | 6 sets |
| 5 | any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. | 5 sets |
| 6 | the intentional use of a word or expression figuratively i.e. used in a different sense from its original significance in order to give vividness or emphasis to an idea. some important types of____ are: antonomasia irony metaphor metonymy and synecdoche. | 4 sets |
| 7 | artful diction; the use of language in a nonliteral way; also called a figure of speech. | 3 sets |
| 8 | a figure of speech, such as metaphor or metonymy, in whch words are not used in their literal (or actual) sense but in a figurative (or imaginative) sense. | 3 sets |
| 9 | any figurative language | 3 sets |
| 10 | the generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, and metaphor. | 3 sets |
| 11 | the use of a word in a figurative sense with a decided change or extension in its literal meaning | 2 sets |
| 12 | the intentional use of a word or expression figuratively, i.e., used in a different sense from its original significance in order to give vividness or emphasis. | 2 sets |
| 13 | artful diction | 2 sets |
| 14 | figurative use of a word | 2 sets |
| 15 | a metaphorical use of a word/phrase | 2 sets |
| 16 | a figure of speech that is not literal. (ie: metaphor, simile, personification) | 2 sets |
| 17 | the use of a word in a figurative sense with a decided change or extension in its literal meaning; a shift in the typical meaning of a word (eg "i put down my weapon of choice at the end of my test--a dull #2 lead pencil") | 2 sets |
| 18 | the generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile, or metaphor. | 2 sets |
| 19 | a figure of speech involving the addition of a non-literal meaning to a word or phrase. | 2 sets |
| 20 | musical or textual addition to existing chant | 1 set |
| 21 | a figure of speech; use of a word or phrase in a figurative sense. | 1 set |
| 22 | a rhetorical device that produces a shift in the meaning of words. examples: metaphor, simile, personification, hyperbole | 1 set |
| 23 | a common theme used in storytelling | 1 set |
| 24 | figurative use of a word; cf. figure of speech: expression (eg. simile or metaphor) | 1 set |
| 25 | words used with a decided change or extension in their literal meaning; the use of a word in a figurative speech | 1 set |
| 26 | any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense; an instance of this | 1 set |
| 27 | a devation from the normal definition of a word | 1 set |
| 28 | use of word or expression in figurative sense | 1 set |
| 29 | use of word or expression, figurative sense | 1 set |
| 30 | an artful variation from expected modes of expression of thoughts or ideas. | 1 set |
| 31 | liturigacal elaborations | 1 set |
| 32 | generic name for a figure of speech such as image, symbol, simile | 1 set |
| 33 | words are used in a sense different from their literal meaning irony, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche | 1 set |
| 34 | any artful variation from the typical or expected way a word or idea is expressed | 1 set |
| 35 | literary device | 1 set |
| 36 | a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression | 1 set |
| 37 | created by manipulating the meaning of a word | 1 set |
| 38 | use of a word other than the literal | 1 set |
| 39 | use of a word in a figurative sense with a decided change or extension in its literal meaning | 1 set |
| 40 | any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense | 1 set |