| NOM | communication | tropo, imatge, trop | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense |
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| Sentit | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. | |
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| Sinònims | imatge, trop | |
| Específic | exageració, hipèrbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| ironia | A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs | |
| metonímia | Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') | |
| metàfora | A figure of speech in which an expression is used to refer to something that it does not literally denote in order to suggest a similarity | |
| oxímoron | conjoining contradictory terms (as in 'deafening silence') | |
| personificació, prosopopeia | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature | |
| sinècdoque | Substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa | |
| símil | A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') | |
| zeugma | Use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one | |
| General | figura retòrica | A use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
| Ús | efecte dòmino | The consequence of one event setting off a chain of similar events (like a falling domino causing a whole row of upended dominos to fall / fall) |
| megahit | An unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) | |
| timó | A position of leadership | |
| Anglès | trope, figure of speech, figure, image | |
| Espanyol | imagen, metáfora, tropo | |
| Adjectius | tropical | Characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes |
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