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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3
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Une nouvelle

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A short story

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4
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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 fairy tale

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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

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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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15
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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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18
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Une biographie

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An biography

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19
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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

25
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Le modernisme

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Modernism

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Le post-modernisme

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Post-modernism

27
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Un récit à la 3è personne

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A third-person narrative

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Un genre littéraire

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A literary genre

29
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Littérature

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Literature

30
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Se conformer au genre de

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The conventions of a genre

31
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Conventionnel / inventif

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Conventional/inventive, innovative

32
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Une intrigue

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A plot

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La dynamique de l’intrigue

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The dynamics of the plot

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L’enchaînement des événements

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The sequence of events

35
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Une action en suit une autre

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An action follows another

36
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La suite d’une histoire ou d’une action

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A sequel

37
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Une succession d’événements

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A seccession of events

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Le fil directeur de l’intrigue

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The main story-line

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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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Un récit enchâssé

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An embedded narrative

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Le déroulement de l’intrigue

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The unfoldind of the plot

43
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Le déroulement de l’action

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The unraveling of the action

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Un tournant

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A turning point

45
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La chute, une fin qui surprend

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A surprise / a twist ending, an unexpected denouement

46
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Le roman s’ouvre/se clôt sur

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The novel opens on / the novel closes on

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Riche en événements, mouvementé

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Enventful, packed with incidents

48
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L’apogée, le paroxysme

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The climax

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Un passage où la tension monte / descend

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Suspense is sustained by

50
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Le suspense est renforcée par

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The suspense is built up by expressions sush as

51
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La tension retombe

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The tension subsides / lessens / slackens