The art of narrative Flashcards

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L’action pcple

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the main story-line

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l’intrigue secondaire

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the subsidiary story-line

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l’intrigue inférieure

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the underplot / the counterplot / the minor plot

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une incise

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an interpolated phrase

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le schéma narratif

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the pattern of the plot (dramatic / episodic)

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la situation initiale

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the exposition

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l’élément perturbateur

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the inciting moment / the initiating event / the catalytic event

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faire démarrer l’action

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to trigger the action off

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l’acmé

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the climax

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péripéties

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Peripeteia

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11
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révélation

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discovery / anagnorisis

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le déroulement de l’action

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the unraveling of the action

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la tension diminue

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the tension subsides / lessens / slackens

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un événement amène la fin de l’histoire

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an event winds up the plot

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une fin surprenante

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a surprise ending / twist ending

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La phrase est un baisser de rideau classique

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The sentence is a classic curtain-line

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l’impression que le temps est suspendu

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the impression that time is suspended

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une information retardée / retenue

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delayed / withheld information

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un champ de perception

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a field of perception

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le récit passe de…à

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the narrative shifts back and forth from…to…

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un personnage qui est l’oeil de l’histoire

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a caractère who is the eye of the story

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Des évé filtrés par la conscience d’un psg

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Events filtered through the consciousness of a character

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privilégier un point de vue

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to privelege a point of view

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un narrateur caché

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unobtrusive / unintrusive / self-effacing

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un narrateur détaché / concerné

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detached / involved

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un narrateur auquel on ne peut pas faire confiance

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unreliable / fallible

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un narrateur trompé / berné / lucide

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deluded / lucid

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un point de vue défectueux

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flawed focalizer

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novels by Samuel Beckett, John Hawkes or Donald Barthelme are

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antirealistic novels

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roman d’apprentissage

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bildungsroman

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an aphorism expressing a widely accepted principle

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an axiom

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an unbelievable, long, rambling and absurd story

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a cock-and-bull story

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a medieval tale of war and adventure

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gest

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writing that lament or complain about the condition of man, or announce coming doom

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jeremiad

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a harsh and bitter satire against one person

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a lampoon

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a novel with a thesis or which centres on a human or social problem

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problem novel

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a question or a statement put in an ingenious way and whose answer requires some puzzling out.

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a riddle