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une large gamme de connotations

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a wide range / gamut of connotations

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le mot est pejorativement connoté

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The word has pejorative undertones.

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polysémique

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polysemous

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etre synonyme de

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be synonymous with

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des synonymes qui apparaissent en paire… // sain et sauf

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doublets

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multiple directions of thought

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plurisignation

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when one of the possible meanings is riqué or bawdy

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double entendre

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elision at the beginning of a word

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aphaeresis

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elision in the middle of a word

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syncope

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elision at the end of a word

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apocope

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addition at the beginning of a word without any change in meaning

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prothesis

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addition in the middle of a word without any change in meaning

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epenthesis

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addition at the end of a word without any change in meaning

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paragoge

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palindrome

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palindrome

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neologism only used once

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nonce word

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when two words are telescoped

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portmanteau words

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adjective that pre-modify the noun

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attributive

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adjective that follow the verb

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predicative

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un verbe qui marque un temps (he drives a lot, she went to Scotland)

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finite verb

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un verbe en -ing ou -ed (infinitive or participle : on opening the door ; tired as she was)

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non-finite verb

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complément circonstanciel

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an adjunct

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when the subordinate sentence is inserted in the middle of the main clause and splits it, it is called

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embedding / nested

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hypotactique (avec de nb subordonnées)

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hypotactic

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24
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there + be + topical subject =…

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existential sentence

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it is John who said that

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cleft sentence

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the keys you’ll find in the drawer

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fronting

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villainy ! villainy ! villainy !

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epizeuxis

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repetition of questions

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quaesitio

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29
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using several words which are synonymous or close in meaning

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interpretatio

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when statement can be understood in two different ways

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amphibology

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31
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gradation ascendante

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auxesis

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gradation descendante

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catacosmesis

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arguing with oneself, asking q° and answering them

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antypophora

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34
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humour noir

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gallow humour

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a conversation made up of clever replies and witticisms

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repartee

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dry and mocking humour

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wry humour

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une touch d’humour

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a stroke of humour

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38
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satire indirecte (via comportement absurde des psg)

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menippean satire

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démolir les conventions de

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to puncture the conventions of

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la satire a pour cible

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to aim one’s satire at

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décrier les absurdités humaines

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to decry human inconsistencies

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s’élever contre

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to inveigh against

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une critique cinglante

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a scathing criticism

44
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accusation du vice

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the arraignment of vice

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prononcer une diatribe

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to utter a diatrib against

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prétérition

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apophasis

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a voice wich keeps hovering between self-pity and self-mokery

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romantic irony

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le sens immédiat, explicite

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the ostensible meaning

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le décalage entre ce qui est affirmé et ce qui est signifié

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the discrepancy between what is asserted and what is meant

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un centon

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a cento

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héroï-comique

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mock-epic

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le traitement déflationniste du thème de

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the deflationary treatment of the theme of

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un parallèle ridicule

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a ludicrous parallel

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l’imitation de

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the mimicry of

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un pathos qui aboutit à qqc de ridicule, commonplace

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bathos

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défamiliarisation -> image mise au premier plan = effet de ??

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foregrounding

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une image au sens fixe / flottant

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fixed / floating

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une image qui apparaît partout dans une oeuvre

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obsessive image

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une image tirée du champ de

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an image drawn from the field of

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la ligne prend une force symbolique

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the line takes on a symbolic force

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succession of metaphoros progressing climactically -> same tenor but different vehicles

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exergasia

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He is not a saint

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a reverse metaphor

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une métaphore usée, cliché / nouvelle

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a hackneyed metaphor / fresh

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une image evoquant ..

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carries undertones of

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Northrop Frye’s distinction between to styles : literary / close to diction

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Hieratic / demotic

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censurer des passages

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to expurgate / bowdlerize passages

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binary rythms, amplifications ->

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ciceronian style

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highly rhetorical, excessively balanced, affected style

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euphuistic

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affected, flamboyant, startling style (often Metaphysical poets)

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marinism

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highly ornamented style

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asianism

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affected and precious style

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dandyism (Oscar Wilde, decadent writers of the end of the 19th cty)

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an ornate and overwrought passage which sounds contrived and artificial is called a

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purple patch

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verbose, redundant style

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otiose style / logorrhea

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rambling and imprecise style

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a prosy style

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périmé, démodé

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stale

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un style banal

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trite style

77
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un style fort, simple et unpretentious

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doric

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effet de dentelle, de déchiquètement irrégulier

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jaggedness

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pejorative word to reer to specialized language

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cant

80
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déformer l’orthographe pour imiter un dialecte

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eye-dialect

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Les silhouettes se détachent sur un arrière-plan de

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Figures are seen against a background of

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tout est subordonné à la figure centrale

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Everything is subordinated to the central figure

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un portrait en buste

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the portrait is a bust lengh

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un portrait de la têt aux pieds

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a full length

85
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the contrast of light and shade

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chiaroscuro

86
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la lumière donne du relief au tableau

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the lighting gives relief to the painting

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the contours nets

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strong outlines

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la touche du peintre

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the brushwork (broad, swift, brisk, free)

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la distance entre la camera et la scène

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the range of view

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la prise de vue qui ouvert une séquence et montre le décor

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the establishing shot

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une vue sur le sujet qui remplit alors le cadre

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full shot

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un gros plan

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close up

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un zoom

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zoom shot

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importance égale de l’arrière plan et du premier plan

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a deep focus shot

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un vue d’oiseau

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a bird’s eye view

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un vue prise du sol

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a low angle shot

97
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un mouvement ou la caméra pivote horizontalement

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a pan

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