trope vs kenning

trope and kenning both are nouns.

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

As nouns, kenning is a hyponym of trope; that is, kenning is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than trope:

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

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