Trope

Rarity: Uncommon

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What Wikipedia says

Un trope est une figure de style ou de rhétorique qui consiste en un changement de sens, qui peut être soit interne (au niveau de la pensée) soit externe par substitution de signifiant (au niveau des mots).

Excerpt from the Wikipedia article “Trope (rhétorique)”, under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license. Read the article on Wikipedia

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