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FICTION: THE NARRATIVE GENRE Flashcards

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un extrait / un passage

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an excerpt / a passage

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tiré de

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drawn from

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une nouvelle

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a short story

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un roman

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a novel

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un conte de fées

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a fairytale

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un roman contemporain

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a contemporary novel

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un roman de science fiction

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a science fiction story

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un roman policier

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a detective novel/story

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un roman épistolaire

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an epistolary novel

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un roman gothique

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a Gothic novel

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le fantastique

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the fantastic

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un roman historique

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a historical novel

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un roman réaliste

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a realistic novel

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un roman naturaliste

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a naturalistic novel

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surréaliste

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surrealistic

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un roman sentimental

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a sentimental novel / a novel of sensibility

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une autobiographie

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an autobiography

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une biographie

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a biography

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un journal intime

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a diary

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un portrait

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a portrait

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une description

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a description

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une description de paysage

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a landscape description

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le classicisme

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classicism

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le romantisme

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romanticism

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le modernisme

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modernism

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le post-modernisme

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post-modernism

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un récit (à la 1ère personne / à la 3ème personne)

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a (first / third person) narrative

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un auteur

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an author

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un écrivain

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a writer

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un genre littéraire

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a literary genre

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littérature

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literature

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la suite (chronologique) d’une histoire ou action

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a sequel (≠ a prequel)

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se conformer au genre de

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to conform to the genre of

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les conventions d’un genre

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the conventions of a genre

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conventionnel

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conventional

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inventif

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inventive / innovative

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une intrigue

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a plot

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l’intrigue principale

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the main plot

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l’intrigue secondaire

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the subplot

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le fil directeur de l’intrigue

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the main story-line

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le déroulement de l’intrigue

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the unfolding of the plot

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un récit enchâssé

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an embedded narrative

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l’enchaînement des événements

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the sequence of events

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le roman s’ouvre / se clôt sur

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the novel opens on (with)

the novel closes on

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le déroulement de l’action

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the unraveling of the action

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un tournant (dans une histoire)

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a turning point

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la chute, une fin qui surprend

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a surprise / a twist ending

an unexpected denouement

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riche en événements, mouvementé

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eventful, packed with incidents

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l’apogée, le paroxysme (de la tension)

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the climax

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un passage où la tension monte / descend

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a climactic / anti-climactic passage

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le suspense est maintenu par…

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the suspense is sustained by…

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le suspense est renforcé par…

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the suspense is built up by…

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la tension retombe

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the tension subsides / lessens / slackens

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la tension monte

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the tension rises / mounts / gathers

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détendre l’atmosphère

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to ease off the tension

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désamorcer la tension

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to defuse the tension

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accroître la tension

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to heighten the tension

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un rythme qui s’accélère

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an acceleration (≠ deceleration) in the rythm

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le rythme du récit

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the pace of the narrative

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rapide ≠ lent

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quick-paced ≠ slow-paced

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l’instance narrative

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the narrating agency

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les voix narratives

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the narrating voices

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le narrataire (= destinataire du récit)

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the narratee

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le narrateur

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the narrator

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un narrateur omniscient

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an omniscient narrator

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un narrateur fiable / non fiable

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a reliable / unreliable narrator

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le narrateur cache certaines infos

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the narrator withholds information

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une fausse piste

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a misleading indication

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les points de vue

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points of view / viewpoints

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la focalisation externe / interne / zéro

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internal / external / zero focalisation

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la technique du courant de conscience

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the stream-of-consciousness technique

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un monologue intérieur

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an interior monologue

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un résumé

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a summary

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résumer

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to sum up, to summarize

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reprendre (un récit interrompu)

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to resume

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un plan

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an outline

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un commentaire linéaire

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a running commentary

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commenter

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to comment on

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faire une observation sur

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to remark on

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une explication

-> explicatif

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an explanation

-> explanatory

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interpréter

-> interprété comme

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to interpret

-> interpreted as

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interprétatif

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interpretive

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le thème principal

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the main theme

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le thème sous-jacent

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an underlying theme

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le centre d’intérêt, le coeur (d’un récit, d’un passage)

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the focus

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le point crucial, point central

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the core / gist / crux of the matter

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au coeur de

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at the heart / core of

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le premier plan

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the foreground

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l’arrière-plan

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the background

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un gros plan sur

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a close-up on

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zoomer sur

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to zoom on

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une vue générale de

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an overview of

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une vue d’ensemble, panoramique

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a panoramic view

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faire allusion à

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to allude TO / to hint AT

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s’étendre / insister sur qqc

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to dwell on / upon smth

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exposer ses vues

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to expound one’s views

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révélateur, éloquent, efficace

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revealing, telling

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signifiant

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meaningful

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significatif

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significant

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signification

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significance

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imprégner, envahir (sens figuré)

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to permeate, to pervade

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imprégner (une scène) de

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to suffuse with

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un texte plein de…

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a text fraught / scattered with

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saturé de..

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saturated with..

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envahissant

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pervasive

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une citation

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a quote

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citer quelqu’un

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to quote somebody

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citer (un livre)

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to quote from (a book)

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réécrire / remanier

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to rewrite

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ce passage est une réécriture de

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the passage is a rewriting of

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un personnage

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a character

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le personnage principal

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the protagonist

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un héros, une héroïne

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a hero, a heroine

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un anti-héros

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an antihero

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le «méchant»

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the villain

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l’antagoniste

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the antagonist

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un type (archétype)

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a type, an archetype

a stock character

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un stéréotype / stéréotypé

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a stereotype / stereotypical

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un personnage ambigu

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an ambiguous character

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les traits distinctifs

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the defining features

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faire le portrait d’un personnage

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to portray a character

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le portrait; la peinture d’un personnage

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the portrayal of a character

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décrire, dépeindre quelqu’un comme

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to depict someone as

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servir de repoussoir (pour mettre en valeur)

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to act as a foil to a character

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peu détaillé, incomplet

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sketchy

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subtil ≠ grossier

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subtle ≠ crude

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émouvant, poignant

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moving

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ridicule

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pathetic, ludicrous, ridiculous

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