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How to pronounce “trope”
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Pronunciation guide for trope
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of trope with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- The Critical Role of Black Mothers -- and How to Support All Moms
one of them also was to explain tropes
- Definition summary
- (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce trope
The Critical Role of Black Mothers -- and How to Support All Moms

one of them also was to explain tropes
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “trope”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- (art, literature) Something recurring across a genre or type of art or literature; a motif.
- (medieval Christianity) An addition (of dialogue, song, music, etc.) to a standard element of the liturgy, serving as an embellishment.
- (rhetoric) A figure of speech in which words or phrases are used with a nonliteral or figurative meaning, such as a metaphor.
- (geometry) Mathematical senses.
- (music) Musical senses.
- (philosophy) Philosophical senses.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To use, or embellish something with, a trope.
- (transitive) Senses relating chiefly to art or literature.
- (intransitive) To think or write in terms of tropes.
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