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How to Pronounce “emplotment” in English

/ɛmplɒtmɛnt/

em·plot·ment

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What does “emplotment” mean?

NOUN
  • The assembly of a series of historical events into a narrative with a plot.

Example sentences

  • 1978, Hayden White, "The Historical Text As Literary Artifact", re-printed in Geoffrey Roberts (editor), The History and Narrative Reader, Routledge (2001), →ISBN, page 223, Yet, I would argue, histories gain part of their explanatory effect by their success in making stories out of mere chronicles; and stories in turn are made out of chronicles by an operation which I have elsewhere called “emplotment.” And by emplotment I mean simply the encodation of the facts contained in the chronicle as components of specific kinds of plot structures, in precisely the way that Frye has suggested is the case with “fictions” in general.
  • In the emplotment provided by the economy of mistakes and learning, there are picaresque echoes infused with humor and a penchant for the ridiculous.
  • White puts choices about form, for example, into categories such as argument, ideology and emplotment.

Common phrases

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How to pronounce “emplotment

Syllables:
em · plot · ment
IPA:
/ɛmplɒtmɛnt/
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How do you pronounce “emplotment”?

“emplotment” is pronounced /ɛmplɒtmɛnt/ (em · plot · ment). Listen to the native-speaker clips above to hear it in real conversation.

How many syllables are in “emplotment”?

“emplotment” has 3 syllables: em · plot · ment.

What does “emplotment” mean?

The assembly of a series of historical events into a narrative with a plot.

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