Word of the Day – Trope

Trope (noun)

trohp

any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.

First recorded in 1525–35; from Latin tropus “figure in rhetoric, manner of singing” from Greek trópos “turn, manner, style, figure of speech,”

Example sentences

“Some literary tropes are just so overdone and readers are sick of them”