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46 La Littérature - Literature Flashcards

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Un auteur

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An author

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**Faire un livre**

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**Making a book**

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Un écrivain

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A writer

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Un “nègre”

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A ghost writer

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Un manuscrit

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A manuscript

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Un premier jet, une ébauche

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A draft

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Une suppression

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A deletion

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Une faute d’orthographe

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A spelling mistake

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Une faute de frappe

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A typing mistake

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Une faute d’impression

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A misprint

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La typographie

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Typography

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Une note de bas de page

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A footnote

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Un imprimeur

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A printer

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Les épreuves

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The proofs

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Un éditeur, une maison d’édition

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A publisher

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Une traduction

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A translation

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Un traducteur

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A translator

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Un agent littéraire

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A book agent

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Traduire

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To translate

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(Re)formuler

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To (re)word, to (re)phrase

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Barrer, rayer, raturer

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To strike, to cross out

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Dédicacer un livre pour qqun

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To sign / to inscribe a book to sb

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Corriger, réviser un livre

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To edit a book

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Imprimer

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To print (out)

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Illustrer

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To illustrate

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Enluminer

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To illuminate

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Relire, corriger les épreuves

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To proofread

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Être mis sous presse

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To go to press

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**Les oeuvres de fiction**

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**Fiction**

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Un(e) romancier(-ère)

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A novelist

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Un roman

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A novel

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Un roman policier

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A detective novel

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Un roman d’espionnage

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A spy novel

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Une nouvelle

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A short story

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Un recueil

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A collection

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Un feuilleton

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A serial (story)

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Une bande dessinée

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A comic (strip)

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L’histoire

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The story

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L’intrigue

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The plot

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Une intrigue secondaire

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A sub-plot

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Le narrateur

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The narrator

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La narration

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The narrative

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Un personnage

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A character

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L’atmosphère

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The atmosphere, the mood

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Le cadre, le décor

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The setting

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Le paroxysme de l’action

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The climax

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Un rebondissement

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A twist

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Le déroulement de l’histoire

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The unfolding of the story

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Un tournant

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A turning point

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Le début

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The beginning

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La fin

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The end(ing)

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La tension

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Tension

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Le mystère

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Mystery

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Le réalisme, le surréalisme

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Realism, surrealism

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Le naturalisme

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Naturalism

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  1. Un roman d’aventure 2. Un roman d’amour
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A romance

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Mystérieux

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Mysterious

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Réaliste

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Realistic

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Romanesque, romantique

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Romantic (avec la mascule), romantic

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Épistolaire

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Epistolary

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Décrire

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To describe

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Dépeindre, représenter

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To depict

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Dénouer une intrigue

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To unravel a plot

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Raconter / narrer

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To tell, to narrate

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**La poésie**

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**Poetry***

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Un(e) poète(sse)

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A poet(ess)

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Un poème

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A poem

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Un vers

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A line, a verse

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Une strophe

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A stanza

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Une rime

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A rhyme

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Un accent tonique

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A stress

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Un pied

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A foot

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La césure

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The caesura

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Une épopée

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An epic (poem)

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Un sonnet

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A sonnet

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Une ballade

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A ballad

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Une élégie

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A elegy

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Une comptine

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A nursery rhyme

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Poétique

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Poetic(al)

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Lyrique

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Lyric(al)

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En vers / en prose

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In verse / in prose

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Rimer

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To rhyme

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**Le théâtre**

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**Drama**

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Un auteur dramatique, un dramaturge

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A playwright, a dramatist

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Une pièce de théâtre

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A play

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Un acte

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An act

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Une scène (d’une pièce)

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A scene

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Un dialogue

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A dialogue

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Un monologue

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A monologue

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Un soliloque

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A soliloquy

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La comédie, une comédie

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Comedy, a comedy

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La tragédie, une tragédie

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Tragedy, a tragedy

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Le mélodrame, un mélodrame

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Melodrama, a melodrama

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Les indications scéniques

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The stage directions

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Comique / Tragique

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Comic / Tragic

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Épuisé / Disponible (un livre)

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Out of print / in print

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Ce livre est un énorme succès de librairie

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That book is a blockbuster

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Eh bien moi, je le trouve illisible

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Well, I find it unreadable

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Un beau livre, un livre d’art

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A coffee table book

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Quelques genres littéraires : la littérature de voyage, la littérature pour la jeunesse, la science-fiction

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Some literary genres : travel literature, children’s literature, and science fiction

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Un thriller est un roman dans lequel le suspense est presque insoutenable

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A thriller is a novel in which the suspense is almost unbearable

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Les contes (de fées) sont remplis d’ogres, de fées, de sorcières, de lutins, de loups-garous, de sirènes et de géants

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(Fairy) tales teem with ogres, fairies, witches, goblins, werewolves, mermaids and giants

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Tous les écrivains ont l’angoisse de la page blanche et du blocage de l’écrivain

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All writes are afraid of the blank page and of writer’s block

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Mrs Dalloway est un roman de Virginia Woolf

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Mrs Dalloway is a novel by Virginia Woolf

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Cet écrivain prend souvent un pseudonyme

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This writer often uses a pseudonym / a pen-name

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Au théâtre, il y a trois unités : unité de temps, unité de lieu et unité d’action

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In drama, the three unities are time, place and action

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Elle fut sa muse et inspira ses premières oeuvres

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Se was his muse and inspired his early works

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Le pentamètre iambique est à la poésie anglaise ce que l’alexandrin est à la poésie française

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The iambic pentameter is to English poetry what the alexandrine is to French poetry

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Biographies, autobiographies, essais, journaux (intimes), mémoires, dictionnaires, encyclopédies, guides touristiques, atlas et livres de cuisine sont des oeuvres non littéraires

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Biographies, autobiographies, essays, diaries, memoirs, dictionaries, encyclop(a)edias, guidebooks, atlases and cookbooks are non-fiction books

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On ne la lui fait pas

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He knows every trick in the book

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Il est mal vu du directeur

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He is in the manager’s bad books

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Le mystère s’épaissit

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The plot thickens

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C’est une encyclopédie vivante

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She is a walking encyclopedia

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