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39 Cards in this Set
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Agencement
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(m) Arrangement, fitting together, ordering
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Ambiguité
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(f) Vagueness in use of words; ambiguity
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Analogie
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(f) Partial resemblance between two things which outwardly do not resemble each other; analogy
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Archétype
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(m) A character type or plot pattern which recurs in literature and folklore and is thought to evoke profound responses in the reader; archetype
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Cadre
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(m) Background (and scenery)
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Contexte
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(m) The totality of which the text under examination is a part; context
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Dénouement
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(m) Resolution of a play or a story
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Durée
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(f) Time, duration
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Écoulement
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(m) Flow; time conceived as a continuum
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Chef-d'oeuvre
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(m) Masterpiece
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Comparaison
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(f) Simile; Comparison
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Hémistiche
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(m) Either half of a line of verse divided by a caesura, usually an "alexandrin"
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Idée principale
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(f) Central idea
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Intrigue
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(f) Plot, action
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Lieu commun
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(m) A commonplace, banality, platitude
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Moeurs
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(f pl.) Manners, customs; morals
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Monologue intérieur
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(m) The reproduction of a character's unspoken inner thoughts
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Motif
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(m) A type of character, verbal pattern, or situation that recurs regularly in literature or art; motive
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Nouvelle
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(f) A novella
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Oeuvre
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(m) WOrks of a writer as a whole
(f) a literary work (f pl.) Works of a writer |
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Optique
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(f) Perspective or point of view
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Ouvrage (littéraire)
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(m) A piece of work
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Point cumilant
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(m) Climax
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Rapport
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(m) Relationship
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Réalisme
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(m) Writing characterized by extremely faithful attention to familiar everyday detail
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Récit
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(m) An account, delivered by a character in a play, of action which took place off-stage; A piece of fiction shorter and simpler than a novel, often narrated in the first person
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Retour en arrière
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(m) Flashback
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Rime
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(f) Identity of sound in the final accented syllable in two or more words; Rhyme
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Rime féminine
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(f) A rhyme involving words ending in a mute -e, -es, or the verbal ending -ent
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Rime intérieure
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(f) A rhyme involving words in the interior of a line of verse
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Rime masculine
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(f) A rhyme involving words with endings other than mute -e, -es, or the verbal ending -ent
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Romancier
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(m) Novelist
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Romantisme
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(m) Romaticism; Term applied to the general disposition towards life in the first half of the 19th century
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Strophe
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(m) Unite withon a poem formed by a group of versdes
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Style indirect libre
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(m) An internalization of the narrative, it approximates the POV of a fictional characterr while retaining some of the detachment of the third person and avoiding the formality of indirect discourse
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Surréalisme
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(m) Surrealism; Movement in the 1920s and 30s attempting to reach back to the preconscious mind by means of freely associated images
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Symbole
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(m) An image used as a sign for something else
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Symbolisme
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(m) The use of symbols
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Synesthésie
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(f) Faculty of responding with two or more senses when only one sense is being stimulated; i.e. odor is attributed to colors, vice versa, etc...
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