The Language of Commentaries and Essays Flashcards

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The chapter provides no account of the ball

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Le chapitre ne donne aucune description de la balle

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Such an ending betrays a strange uncertainty

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Une telle fin dévoile une étrange incertitude

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Her character is delineated in great detail

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Son personnage est décrit dans les moindres détails

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Such a remark might denote a lack of feeling

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Une telle remarque peut induire un manque de sentiment

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The dialogue displays wit and humour

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Le dialogue prodigue plein d’esprit et d’humour

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His concern with morality is evidenced by

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Son souci de la morale est attesté par

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Such words evince a sense of frustration

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De tels mots témoignent d’un sentiment de frustration

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Each of the three sentences exhibits a different kind of rhythm

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Chacune des trois phrases présente (produit) un rythme différent

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This description gives us a hint of what her life must be like…

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Cette description nous donne une idée d’à quoi doit ressembler sa vie…

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The situation is outlined in the first paragraph

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La situation est exposée dans le premier paragraphe

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In this novel, we are shown

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Dans ce roman, on nous montre

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The sentence signals a shift in point of view

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La phrase avertie d’un changement de point de vue

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First, the situation is briefly sketched

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Tout d’abord, la situation est brièvement esquissée

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The text throws light up on the character’s self-delusion

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Le texte met en lumière l’auto-illusion du personnage

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The story hinges round the child discovery

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L’histoire s’articule autour de la découverte de l’enfant

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The story has to do with

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L’histoire a à voir avec

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The author tackles the subject with courage

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L’auteur aborde le sujet avec courage

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He invests everyday life with supernatural qualities

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Il confère au quotidien des qualités surnaturelles

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She expounds her ideas throught metaphors

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Elle expose ses idées à travers des métaphores

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The passage distils an impression of sadness

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Le passage distille une impression de tristesse

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These lines are couched in bombastic humour

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Ces lignes sont formulées dans un humour ampoulé

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The narrator build up a strong sense of eeriness

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Le narrateur développe un fort sentiment d’étrangeté

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23
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The novelist voices his contempt for

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Le romancier exprime son mépris pour

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The writer puts towards the view that

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L’écrivain avance l’idée que

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The form shape the ideas

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La forme façonne les idées

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The poet strikes a note of

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Le poète frappe une note de

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The analogy is worked out throughout the stanza

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L’analogie est élaborée tout au long de la strophe

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28
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The text yields further signifiance if we consider

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Le texte a une signification supplémentaire si l’on considère

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How we can account for

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Comment pouvons-nous rendre compte

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The poet make plain the difference between their attitudes is

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Le poète fait clairement comprendre que la différence entre leurs attitudes est

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The poet states his attitude towards

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Le poète exprime son attitude envers

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The novel epitomizes the moral dilemna faced by women (is the epitome of)

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Le roman incarne le dilemme moral auquel sont confrontées les femmes (est l’incarnation de)

33
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The last stanza treats of the future

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La dernière strophe traite du futur

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Such language smacks of insecurities

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Un tel langage fait sentir l’insécurité

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The images bespeak understanding and firgiveness

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Les images témoignent de la compréhension et de la fermeté

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The effect is compounded by the fact that

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L’effet est aggravé par le fait que

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The use of such imagery deepens the signifiance of the passage

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L’utilisation d’une telle imagerie approfondit la signification du passage

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The characters puts heavy emphasize on the word

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Les personnages mettent fortement l’accent sur le mot

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The emphatic use of ryhme serves to

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L’utilisation emphatique du rythme sert à

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The use of such a metaphor enhances the comedy

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L’utilisation d’une telle métaphore améliore la comédie

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The accumulation of question foregrounds the theme of the quest

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L’accumulation de question met au premier plan le thème de la quête

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There is a heigtened feeling of dejection

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Il y a un sentiment accru de découragement

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His gesture is laden with emotional force

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Son geste est chargé de force émotionnelle

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The point cannot be overemphasized

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Le point ne peut pas être surestimé

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The description sets offf him as someone different

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La description le met en scène comme quelqu’un de différent

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This sharpens the ontrast between light and darkness

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Cela accentue le contraste entre la lumière et l’obscurité

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The alliteration strenghtens the association between the two words

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L’allitération renforce l’association entre les deux mots

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The paragraph stresses her feeling of loss

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Le paragraphe souligne son sentiment de perte

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The emotion is overstated

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L’émotion est surestimée

50
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A sequential summary of the novel would leave out

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Un résumé séquentiel du roman laisserait de côté

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Stanza 2 carries this idea one step further

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La strophe 2 pousse cette idée un peu plus loin

52
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The revelation is deferred until the last page

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La révélation est différée jusqu’à la dernière page

53
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The narrator delays clarification

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Le narrateur tarde à clarifier

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The momentum does not fail

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La montée en puissance ne manque pas

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The war and its aftermath had a profound effect on

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La guerre et ses conséquences ont profondément marqué

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The poem goes on to

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Le poème continue

57
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At the outset, we discover

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Au départ, on découvre

58
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The langage is borrowed form the world of romance

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Le langage est emprunté au monde de la romance

59
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The plot is obviously derived from…

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L’intrigue est évidemment dérivée de…

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A character is a literay descendant of another character

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Un personnage est un descendant littéral d’un autre personnage

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The poem draws on the tradition of

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Le poème s’inspire de la tradition de

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It carries Biblical echoes

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Il porte des échos bibliques

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His use of alliteration is a legacy of Old English poetry

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Son utilisation de l’allitération est un héritage de la poésie vieil anglais

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The novelist belongs to one offshoot of the realisitic movement

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Son utilisation de l’allitération est un héritage de la vieille poésie anglaise

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The novelist belongs to one offshoot of the realisitic movement

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Le romancier appartient à une ramification du mouvement réaliste

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Sterne sets a precedent with the use of disgressions

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Sterne crée un précédent avec l’utilisation de disgressions

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The title is taken from

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Le titre est tiré de

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The line brings to mind

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La ligne me rappelle

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The name is a reminiscence of…

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Le nom rappelle…