A literary trope is the use of figurative language. For example, the sitting United States administration might be referred to as "Washington". Since the 1970s, the word has also come to mean a commonly recurring literary device or motif, a cliché. The term trope had its first known use in English during 1533 and it derives from the Greek τρόπος, "turn, direction, way", derived from the verb τρέπειν, "to turn, to direct, to alter, to change". Wikipedia [ - ]

A literary trope is the use of figurative language. For example, the sitting United States... [ + ]