In our day we consider as figures of speech only the classical tropes, and indeed Aristotle pays little attention to the others.

As men grow earnest and impassioned, and speak from their inmost heart, and without any secondary ends, their language rises to the dignity of poetry and employs tropes and figures.

But he is nearer the truth who calls all of these metaphors.[304] From Cicero on, allegory has a long history as a rhetorical figurea trope.[305] St. Augustine recommends that students of the scriptures study the rhetorical figures so that they may be able to interpret the tropes in the Bible, such as allegory.[306]

War has not only stimulated the composition, but the perusal of poetry, especially among women: When the Armageddon diet Makes Priscilla feel unquiet, She prescribes herself (from Pope) An acidulated trope.

You preserve your tropes and your elegancies?

There are people who can never understand a trope, or any second or expanded sense given to your words, or any humor,but remain literalists, after hearing the music and poetry and rhetoric and wit of seventy or eighty years.