Trope meaning - Trope (literature)

One Navajo creation myth says the sun rides on a turquoise made snail shell.

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This is an example of a trope in the form of a metaphor because he is using a dove to represent the beautiful Juliet in order to emphasize her beauty.

Tropological criticism not to be confused with , a type of biblical is the historical study of tropes, which aims to "define the dominant tropes of an epoch" and to "find those tropes in literary and non-literary texts", an interdisciplinary investigation of which was an "important exemplar".