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“trope”
Any literary or rhetorical device, such as a metaphor, that uses words in a sense different from their literal meanings; a figure of speech.
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tropo-, trop-, -tropal, -trope(s), -tropic, -tropism, -tropia, -tropous, -tropy, trep-
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(Greek: bend, curve, turn, a turning; response to stimulus)