image vs trope

image

verb
  • To represent by an image or symbol; to portray. 

  • To create an image of. 

  • To create a complete backup copy of a file system or other entity. 

  • To reflect, mirror. 

noun
  • A statue or idol. 

  • What a function maps to. 

  • A file that contains all information needed to produce a live working copy. (See disk image and image copy.) 

  • A form of interference: a weaker "copy" of a strong signal that occurs at a different frequency. 

  • The subset of a codomain comprising those elements that are images of something. 

  • A mental picture of something not real or not present. 

  • A characteristic of a person, group or company etc., style, manner of dress, how one is or wishes to be perceived by others. 

  • An optical or other representation of a real object; a graphic; a picture. 

trope

verb
  • To represent something figuratively or metaphorically, especially as a literary motif. 

  • To turn into, coin, or create a new trope. 

  • To use, or embellish something with, a trope. 

  • To think or write in terms of tropes. 

  • To analyse a work in terms of its literary tropes. 

noun
  • Any of the ten arguments used in skepticism to refute dogmatism. 

  • A short cadence at the end of the melody in some early music. 

  • A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor. 

  • An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment. 

  • A particular instance of a property (such as the specific redness of a rose), as contrasted with a universal. 

  • A cantillation pattern, or one of the marks that represents it. 

  • Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature, such as the ‘mad scientist’ of horror movies or the use of the phrase ‘once upon a time’ as an introduction to fairy tales; a motif. 

  • A pair of complementary hexachords in twelve-tone technique. 

  • A tangent space meeting a quartic surface in a conic. 

How often have the words image and trope occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )