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A literary trope is an artistic effect realized with figurative language — word, phrase, image — such as a rhetorical figure.[1] In editorial practice, a trope is "a substitution of a word or phrase by a less literal word or phrase".[2] Semantic change has expanded the definition of the literary term trope to also describe a writer's usage of commonly recurring an overused literary techniques and rhetorical devices (characters and situations)[3][4][5] motifs, and clichés in a work of creative literature.[6][7]
- ^ Miller (1990). Tropes, Parables, and Performatives. Duke University Press. p. 9. ISBN 9780822311119.
- ^ Lundberg, Christian O.; Keith, William M. (10 November 2017). The essential guide to rhetoric. Bedford/St. Martin's. ISBN 9781319094195. OCLC 1016051800.
- ^ "Definition of trope". www.merriam-webster.com. Retrieved 6 October 2022.
- ^ Cuddon, J. A.; Preston, C. E. (1998). "Trope". The Penguin Dictionary of Literary Terms and Literary Theory (4th ed.). London: Penguin. p. 948. ISBN 9780140513639.
- ^ "What is a Trope?". 22 January 2023. Retrieved 28 April 2023.
- ^ "trope". Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary. Springfield, Massachusetts: Merriam-Webster. 2009. Retrieved 16 October 2009.
- ^ "trope (revised entry)". Oxford English Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2014.