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French/English literary terms Flashcards

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an acrostic

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un acrostiche

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an act

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un acte

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bombastic

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ampoulé, enflé

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anadiplosis

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l’anadiplose (f)

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analepsis

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une analepse

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anaphora

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anaphore (f)

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anastrophe

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une anastrophe

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an anecdote

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une anecdote

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foreshadowing

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anticipation, préfiguration

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antiphrasis

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l’antiphrase (f)

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aphasia

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une aphasie

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the apocalypse

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l’apocalypse (f)

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an apostrophe

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une apostrophe

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a ballad

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une ballade

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a blazon

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un blason

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purpose, aim, goal, objective

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le but, le dessein

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a caricature

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une caricature

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catharsis

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la catharsis

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a caesura

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une césure

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a chiasmus

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un chiasme

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the anticlimax

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la chute

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a comedy of manners

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une comédie des Moeurs

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comic relief

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comic relief

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a confidant

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un(e) confident(e)

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a (fairy) tale

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un conte (de fées)

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a discrepency

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une contradiction, une divergence

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synethesia

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des correspondances

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stream of consciousness

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le courant de conscience, le flux de la conscience

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the climax

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le point culminant

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a dactyl

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un dactyle

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demiurge, creator, architect

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le démiurge

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a stage direction

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une didascalie

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the diegesis

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la diégèse

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dimeter

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dimètre

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a couplet

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un distique

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a heroic couplet

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un distique héroique

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a double entendre

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un double-entendre

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the playwright

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le dramaturge

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ekphrasis

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l’ekphrasis

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an elegy

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une élégie

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an ellipsis

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une ellipse

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an envoy

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un envoi

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an epigram

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une épigramme

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an epigraph

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une épigraphe, un exergue

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an epistrophe

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une épistrophe

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an epithalamium

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un épithalame

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an epistle

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une épître

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a euphamism

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un euphémisme

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an excipit

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un excipit

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exegesis

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l’exégèse (f)

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expository scene

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une scène d’exposition

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the pathetic fallacy

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faux pathétique

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a figure of speech

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une figure de style

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body language

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la gestuelle

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a close-up

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un gros-plan

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mock-heroic

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héroï-comique

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hypallage

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l’hypallage

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hyperbole

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l’hyperbole (f)

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hypotaxis

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l’hypotaxe (f)

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an iamb

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un iambe

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in medias res

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in medias res

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a sub-plot

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une intrigue secondaire

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isotopy

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l’isotopie (f)

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a lietmotif

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un lietmotiv

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a maxim

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une maxime

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metalanguage

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la métalangage

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metalepsis

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la métalepse

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a metaphor

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une métaphore

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metonymy

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la métonymie

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metre

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le mètre

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mimesis

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la mimesis

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a monologue

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un monologue

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a portmanteau

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un mot-valise

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an ode

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une ode

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an onomatopeia

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une onomatopée

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an oxymoron

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un oxymore

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a palindrome

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un palindrome

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a parable

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une parabole

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parataxis

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la parataxe

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la paronomase

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paronomasia

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pathos

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le pathétique

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picturesque

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pittoresque

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a pleonasm

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un pléonasme

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a whodunnit

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un polar

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prolepsis

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la prolepse

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prosopopeia

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la prosopopée

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Pyrrhic

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pyrrhique

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mistaken identity

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un quiproquo

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a sudden development

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un rebondissement

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a twist

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un rebondissement inattendu

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the narrative

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le récit

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a rhyme

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une rime

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alternate rhymes

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des rimes croisées

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abba rhyme scheme

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des rimes embrassées

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rhyming couplets

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des rimes plates / suivies

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flat (character)

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sans profondeur

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satire

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la satire

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the figurative meaning

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le sens figuré

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the literal meaning

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le sens littéral, propre

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the Enlightenment

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le siècle des Lumières

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a soliloquy

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un soliloque

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a spondee

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un spondée

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stichomythia

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la stichomythie

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a stanza

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une strophe

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willing suspension of disbelief

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la suspension volontaire de l’incrédulité

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syllepsis

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une syllepse

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a symbol

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un symbole

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a synedoche

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une synecdoque

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syntaxe

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la syntaxe

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a toutology

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une tautologie

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ternary

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ternaire

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blank verse

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un vers blanc

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free verse

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du vers libre

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aestheticism

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l’esthétisme (m)

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Bildungsroman

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un roman d’apprentissage

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burlesque

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le burlesque

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chronotope

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le chronotope

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pathetic fallacy

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l’anthropomorphisme

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reification

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la réification

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zeugma

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un zeugma

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diegesis

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la diégèse

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a plosive

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une consonne occlusive

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a sibilant

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une consonne sibilante

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a fricative

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une consonne fricative

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antanaclass

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L’antanaclase (f)

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paronomasia

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un calembour

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aphaeresis/aphesis

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l’aphérèse (f)

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syncope

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la syncope

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apocope

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l’apocope (f)

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prothesis

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la prothèse

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epenthesis

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l’épenthèse (f)

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paragoge

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la paragoge

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diaresis

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la diérèse

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synaeresis

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la synérèse

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a neologism

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un néologisme

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parataxis

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la parataxe

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hypotaxis

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l’hypotaxe (f)

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isocolon/homeoptoton

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l’isocolon (m)

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symploce

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une symploque

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antimetabole/ antimetathesis

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l’antimétabole

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epanalepsis

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l’épanalèpse (f)

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epizeuxis

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l’épizeuxe

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antistrophe

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l’antistrophe (f)

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epanorthosis

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l’épanorthose (f)

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