surmise vs trope

surmise

verb
  • To imagine or suspect; to conjecture; to posit with contestable premises. 

noun
  • Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess. 

  • Reflection; thought; posit. 

trope

verb
  • To think or write in terms of tropes. 

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

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

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

  • 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 surmise and trope occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )