From the article to which you linked: > But wait: Oxford Dictionaries online, while giving a similar definition – "a figurative or metaphorical use of a word o

From the article to which you linked: > But wait: Oxford Dictionaries online, while giving a similar definition – "a figurative or metaphorical use of a word or expression" – adds a second: "a significant or recurrent theme; a motif: she uses the Eucharist as a pictorial trope".