kenning vs trope

kenning and trope both are nouns.

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

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

kenning: conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry
trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

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

kenning (noun)	trope (noun)
conventional metaphoric name for something, used especially in Old English and Old Norse poetry	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense