trōˈpäləjē noun
( -es )
Etymology: Late Latin tropologia, from Late Greek, from tropos trope (from Greek, turn, manner, style) + Greek -logia -logy — more at trope
1.
a. : a figurative mode of speech or writing
b. : a mode of biblical interpretation stressing a moral meaning inhering in the metaphorical character of language
2. : a treatise on or compilation of tropes