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noun. The definition of a truism is a statement of an obvious truth. An example of a truism is the statement: A man's gotta do what a man's gotta do..
trope. 1. a. any literary or rhetorical device, as metaphor, metonymy, synecdoche, and irony, that consists in the use of words in other than their literal sense. b. an instance of this. 2. a phrase, sentence, or verse formerly interpolated in a liturgical text to amplify or embellish.