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dupes

Noun
Pronunciation

Understanding ARPABET Pronunciation

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The pronunciation guide uses the ARPABET phonetic system—the same system used in speech recognition and text-to-speech applications.

Vowel Examples:
AE1 = cat, bat
EH1 = bed, head
IY1 = see, me
OW1 = go, boat
UW1 = boot, do
Stress Numbers:
0 = no stress (unstressed)
1 = primary stress (loud)
2 = secondary stress (medium)
Example:
AH0 TH IY1 N AH0
= a-THEE-na (Athena)

The stressed syllable (marked with 1) is pronounced louder and clearer than others.

Quick Definition

Persons easily deceived, tricked, or manipulated; in satirical or dramatic poetry, highlights human credulity or vulnerability.

Detailed Definition
A dupe is someone who has been tricked or made to believe something false. In the poem, “hopes were dupes” suggests that hopes may have been mistaken or misled.
Example
Example in poetry:
“If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars” makes dupes people deceived by false promises; Alexander Pope often satirizes social dupes and fashionable self-deception; “We were dupes of the bright campaign poster” gives the plural a modern political setting; “The gullible heart is no dupe of winter” reverses the term for ironic emphasis
Additional Notes
In this line, “dupes” is used in an older literary sense that some readers may need to look up.; Found in the poem, Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth by Arthur Hugh Clough
Also Known As
fools gulls pawns simpletons
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