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43. Literature and Literacy Analysis and Appreciation Flashcards

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un auteur dramatique

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a dramatist, a playwright

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une pièce de théâtre

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a play

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écrire pour le théâtre

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to write for the stage

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adapter un roman

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to dramatize a novel

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des indications scéniques

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stage directions

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  1. des effets scéniques

2. des jeux de scène

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stage effects

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le metteur en scène

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the director

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les personnages principaux

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the protagonists

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jouer une pièce

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to perform a play

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un rôle secondaire, un petit rôle

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a minor part

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jouer le premier rôle

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to play the leading role

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un rôle muet

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a silent role

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un aparté (théâtre)

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an aside

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une réplique

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a line, a cue

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savoir son texte

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to know one’s lines

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j’ai eu un trou de mémoire

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my mind went blank, I dried up

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une comédie de moeurs

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a comedy of manners

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un moraliste

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a moralist

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moraliser à propos de quelque chose

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to moralize about something

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une moralité

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a morality (play)

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le bouffon, la bouffone

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slapstick

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exagérer, en faire trop

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to overdo a scene

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faire des pitreries

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to clown about (familier)

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faire l’idiot, faire l’imbécile

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to play the fool

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saynète

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a playlet

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un sketch

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a skit

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l’action centrale

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the main plot

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une intrigue secondaire

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a subplot

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le noeud de l’action

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the climax

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une chute, une retombée

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an anticlimax

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un rebondissement inattendu

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a twist

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un coup de théâtre

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a coup de theatre

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le dénouement

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the denouement

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connaitre une fin triste, poignante

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to come to a sad, a pathetic end

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une fin heureuse

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a happy ending

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justice immanente

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poetic justice

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un romancier

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a novelist

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un roman

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a novel

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un roman à thèse

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a novel with a purpose

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une nouvelle

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a short story

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un roman à deux sous, une nouvelle

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a novelette

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un conte, une histoire

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a tale

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Il était une fois

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once upon a time

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un roman d’amour

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a romance

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un roman d’espionnage

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a cloak-and-dagger

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un roman policier

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a detective story

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un polar (familier)

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a whodunit

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un roman à suspense

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a thriller

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un indice

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a clue, a pointer

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élucider un mystère

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to unravel a mystery

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épisodes (oeuvre littéraire)

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instalments

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recevoir un prix littéraire

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to be awarded a prize

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un plumitif mal connu

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an obscure scribbler

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un scénariste

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a scriptwriter

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le public, les lecteurs

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the reading public

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un récit en abîme

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an embedded narrative

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un rebondissement

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a sudden development

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plat, sans profondeur

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flat

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non rimé (poème)

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unrhymed

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en vers rimés

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in rhyming verse

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l’agencement des rimes

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the rhyme scheme

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des rimes croisées

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alternate rhymes

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des rimes tiercées

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terza rima

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des rimes embrassées

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an a-b-b-a- rhyme scheme

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des rimes suivies

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rhyming couplets

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écrit en vers

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poetical

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le langage poétique

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poetic diction

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la forme et le fond

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manner and matter

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un sonnet

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a sonnet

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un quatrain

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a quatrain

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un tercet

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a tercet

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un distique

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a couplet

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une ode

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an ode

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une ballade

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a ballad

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une petite chanson, chansonnette

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a ditty

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une chanson

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a song

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une satire

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a lampoon

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se moquer de quelqu’un

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to taunt someone

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une utopie

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a utopia

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utopique

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utopian

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un recueil, une selection, une anthologie

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a miscellany

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des mélanges littéraires

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miscellanies

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un extrait, un passage (tiré) de

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an excerpt, an extract, a passage (drawn) from

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l’engagement (personnel)

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commitment

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engagé, non engagé

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committed, uncommitted

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un portrait, une peinture de personnage

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portrayal

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une analyse pertinente

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a relevant analysis

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subtil, fin

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subtle

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une analyse fouillée, minutieuse

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a thorough analysis

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un aperçu révélateur de la psychologie du personnage

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an illuminating insight into the character’s psychology

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profond, approfondi (analyse)

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deep, far-reaching

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détaillé (analyse)

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detailled

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minutieux

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meticulous

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une peinture sommaire

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a rough delineation

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vivant, plein de vie (personne)

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lively

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vrai, conforme à la réalité

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lifelike

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la vraisemblance

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verisimilitude

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vraisemblable

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plausible, convincing

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s’inspirer de la réalité

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to draw from life

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conséquent, logique

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consistent, logical

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illogique, sans suite

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inconsistent

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heureux, pertinent

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apt

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inventivité, le don d’invention

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inventiveness

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peu inspiré

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uninspired

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larmoyant, sentimental

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maudlin

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mièvre (trop sentimental)

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mawkish

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désenchantement, désillusion, déception

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bathos

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pompeux, boursouflé

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turgid

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lourd (figurative)

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stodgy

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lourd, pesant

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ponderous

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grandiloquence (grandiose talk)

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bombast

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une histoire sans queue ni tête, histoire à dormir debout

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a cock-and-bull story

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passer du coq à l’âne

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to jump from one subject to another

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bizarre, étrange

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odd, peculiar

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une bizarrerie

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an oddity, a quirk

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absurdités, n’importe quoi

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nonsense

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dénué de sens, incompréhensible

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nonsensical

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absurde, grotesque, ridicule

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preposterous

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pas cohérent, contradictoire

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inconsistent

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s’égarer

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to wander from the point

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décousu (speech), qui divague (personne)

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rambling

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remplissage (informal) (excess wording)

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padding

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oeuvre alimentaire

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a pot-boiler

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insignifiant, sans intérêt

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trivial

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reformuler

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to rephrase

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récrire, remanier

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to rewrite

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fastidieux

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tedious

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agaçant

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irksome

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monotone

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monotonous

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terre à terre

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down-to-earth

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risible, ridicule

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ludicrous

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le sommaire, la table des matières

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the (table of) contents

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le cadre

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setting

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insister, mettre l’accent sur

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to stress, to lay stress on something

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faire remarquer que

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to point out that

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les idées sont clairement exposées

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the ideas are clearly set out

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aborder, attaquer une question

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to tackle, to approach, to address an issue

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éviter un sujet, une question

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to avoid an issue

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éluder une question brûlante

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to evade a hotly debated issue

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résumer

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to sum up, to summarize

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un résumé

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a summary

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en résumé, en bref, en un mot

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in a nutshell

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bref et direct

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short and to the point

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laconique

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terse, laconic

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précis, exacte, juste

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accurate

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pertinent

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apposite

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convaincant, pertinent

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cogent

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bien dit, bien tourné

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well-put

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mal exprimé

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badly put

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maladroit

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clumsy

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accroître la tension

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to heighten the tension

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virgule

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comma

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deux points

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colon

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point-virgule

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semi-colon

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point

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full stop

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point d’interrogation

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question mark

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point d’exclamation

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exclamation mark

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des guillemets

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quotation marks

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ouvrez les guillemets

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quote

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fermez les guillemets

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unquote

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des parenthèses

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brackets

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le tiret

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dash

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le trait d’union

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hyphen

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une phrase

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a sentence

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une proposition principale

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a main clause

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une proposition subordonnée

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a subordinate clause

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une expression

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a phrase

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