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tropology

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The use of a trope (metaphor or figure of speech).

Other meanings

2. noun

The interpretation of scripture or other work in order to educe moral or figurative meaning; a treatise of such interpretation.

3. noun

A recurring motif or metaphor, a trope; an interplay of tropes.

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