Español > tropo: 1 sentido > nombre 1, communication| Sentido | language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense. |
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| Sinónimos | imagen, metáfora |
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| Específico | ceugma, zeugma | Use of a word to govern two or more words though appropriate to only one |
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| exageración, hipérbole | extravagant exaggeration |
| ironía | A trope that involves incongruity between what is expected and what occurs |
| kenning | conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry |
| metonimia, metonímia | Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in 'they counted heads') |
| metáfora, metáforo | 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') |
| personificación, prosopopeya | representing an abstract quality or idea as a person or creature |
| simile, símil | A figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with 'like' or 'as') |
| sinécdoque | Substituting a more inclusive term for a less inclusive one or vice versa |
| General | figura retórica | A use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
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| Uso | acierto, diana | Something that exactly succeeds in achieving its goal |
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| efecto dominó | 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) |
| limpieza de casa | (figurative) the act of reforming by the removal of unwanted personnel or practices or conditions |
| madrugada | An opening time period |
| megahit, taquillazo, taquillera | An unusually successful hit with widespread popularity and huge sales (especially a movie or play or recording or novel) |
| tarde | A later concluding time period |
| timón | A position of leadership |
| éxito inesperado, sorpresa | An unexpected hit |
| Inglés | trope, figure of speech, figure, image |
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| Catalán | imatge, trop, tropo |
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| Adjetivo | tropical | Characterized by or of the nature of a trope or tropes |
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