trope -- Lucie

trope  (trp) n. 1. A figure of speech using words in nonliteral ways, such as a metaphor. 2. A word or phrase interpolated as an embellishment in the sung parts of certain medieval liturgies. [Latin tropus, from Greek tropos, turn, figure of speech; see trep- in Indo-European roots.] tropi·cal (trp-kl) adj.

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A writer and a reader, Lucie understands tropes.