[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["Rhetoric.any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.an instance of this. Compare figure of speech figure of speech.", "any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense.", "an instance of this. Compare figure of speech figure of speech.", "a phrase, sentence, or verse formerly interpolated in a liturgical text to amplify or embellish.", "a recurring theme or motif, as in literature or art: the heroic trope.the trope of motherhood;the heroic trope.a convention or device that establishes a predictable or stereotypical representation of a character, setting, or scenario in a creative work: The author relies on our knowledge of the Haunted House trope to set the scene.From her introduction in the movie, the character is nothing but a Damsel in Distress trope.The author relies on our knowledge of the Haunted House trope to set the scene.", "a recurring theme or motif, as in literature or art: the heroic trope.the trope of motherhood;the heroic trope.", "a convention or device that establishes a predictable or stereotypical representation of a character, setting, or scenario in a creative work: The author relies on our knowledge of the Haunted House trope to set the scene.From her introduction in the movie, the character is nothing but a Damsel in Distress trope.The author relies on our knowledge of the Haunted House trope to set the scene.", "(in the philosophy of Santayana) the principle of organization according to which matter moves to form an object during the various stages of its existence."]}, {"Bold_text": null, "List Items": ["a combining form meaning “one turned toward” that specified by the initial element (heliotrope); also occurring in concrete nouns that correspond to abstract nouns ending in-tropyor-tropism:allotrope."]}]