Talk:Trope
From Academic Kids
"Metonymy--as in cause and effect" didn't seem right to me.
Metonymy is a slippery fish of a figure--it has different shades of meaning wherever you look--but it seems to me to generally mean substituting one word for something with which it is associated (the more loose version is metalepsis). Naming a cause by its effect would be one way to do this, but not the most common. Naming one thing by one of its attributes is perhaps a more familiar one.
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Question about editing this page.
The page lists four types of tropes. I have a textbook that lists 8 additional types of tropes, examples of each, and explanations/definitions. Can I just add this on? There is no author, it's just a compilation of information for students. It would be useful to place.
