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32 Cards in this Set
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agencement
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m. arrangement, fitting together, ordering
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ambiguïté
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f. vagueness in use of words; expression of multiple meanings by simple words or phrases
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archétype
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m. a collectively inherited unconscious idea, pattern of thought, image, etc., universally present in individual psyches
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cadre
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n. background
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milieu
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m. background
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décor
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m. background
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contexte
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m. the totality of which the text under examination is a part; by extension, the surrounding circumstances of all sorts
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dénouement
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m. resolution of a play, or, by extension, a story
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durée
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f. time, duration, sometimes used to mean subjectively significant time, as opposed to mere chronological or "clock" time
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écoulement
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m. flow, time concieved as a continuum
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chef-d'œvre
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m. (pl. chefs-d'œvre) masterpiece
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comparaison
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f. simile, the simplest of analogical constructions, always with two terms, and using a word like comme or tel
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lieu commun
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m. a commonplace, banality, platitude
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mœurs
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f. pl. manners, customs, as in a "novel of manners"; 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, art, or folklore; motive
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point culminant
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m. climax
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nouvelle
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f. a fictional form of intermediate length, shorter than a novel, longer than a short story.
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œuvre
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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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stance
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f. stanza
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style indirect libre
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m. an internalization of the narrative, it approximates the point of view of a fictional character while retaining some of the detachment of the third person and avoiding the formality of indirect discourse
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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; in literature the term is applied when one kind of sensation is described in terms of another, for example, odor is attributed to colors, sound to odors, etc.
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rapport
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m. relationship
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réalisme
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m. writing characerized by extremely faithful attention to familiar, everyday, unpicturesque physical detail rendered in a matter-of-fact and seemingly unselective way. Written as Réalisme it referes to a movement in the French novel, at its height between 1850 and 1865.
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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 sounds (of the vowel and of whatever consonants follow the vowel) in the final accented syllable of two or more words
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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 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. term applied to the general disposition toward life and art of the Romantic school in the first half of the 19th century. Literature became a direct expression of man's senses and emotions, nature was seen as a reflection of man's inner world; the conventions governing classical literature were rejected as too rigid to allow the expression of fresh feelings and sensations, the exploration of new subject matter.
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