exaggeration vs trope

exaggeration and trope both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
exaggeration	Yes	No	No	No
trope	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, trope is a hypernym of exaggeration; that is, trope is a word with a broader meaning than exaggeration:

Other hypernyms of exaggeration include figure, figure of speech, image.

exaggeration (noun)	trope (noun)
the act of making something more noticeable than usual	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense
making to seem more important than it really is
extravagant exaggeration