simile vs trope

simile and trope both are nouns.

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

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

simile: a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')
trope: language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense

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

simile (noun)	trope (noun)
a figure of speech that expresses a resemblance between things of different kinds (usually formed with `like' or `as')	language used in a figurative or nonliteral sense