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Revision as of 05:07, 18 August 2006
Defined in rhetoric as a device involving a change or transference of meaning, and working, unlike a figure, at a conceptual level.
The recognition and appreciation of tropes such as metaphor and metonyumy implies an intellectual effort on the part of the speaker and listener alike.