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une large gamme de connotations

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a wide range / gamut of connotations

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le mot est pejorativement connoté

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The word has pejorative undertones.

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polysémique

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polysemous

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etre synonyme de

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be synonymous with

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des synonymes qui apparaissent en paire… // sain et sauf

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doublets

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multiple directions of thought

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plurisignation

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when one of the possible meanings is riqué or bawdy

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double entendre

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elision at the beginning of a word

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aphaeresis

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elision in the middle of a word

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syncope

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elision at the end of a word

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apocope

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addition at the beginning of a word without any change in meaning

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prothesis

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addition in the middle of a word without any change in meaning

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epenthesis

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addition at the end of a word without any change in meaning

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paragoge

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palindrome

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palindrome

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neologism only used once

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nonce word

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when two words are telescoped

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portmanteau words

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adjective that pre-modify the noun

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attributive

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adjective that follow the verb

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predicative

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un verbe qui marque un temps (he drives a lot, she went to Scotland)

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finite verb

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un verbe en -ing ou -ed (infinitive or participle : on opening the door ; tired as she was)

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non-finite verb

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complément circonstanciel

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an adjunct

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when the subordinate sentence is inserted in the middle of the main clause and splits it, it is called

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embedding / nested

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hypotactique (avec de nb subordonnées)

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hypotactic

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there + be + topical subject =…

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existential sentence

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it is John who said that
cleft sentence
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the keys you'll find in the drawer
fronting
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villainy ! villainy ! villainy !
epizeuxis
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repetition of questions
quaesitio
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using several words which are synonymous or close in meaning
interpretatio
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when statement can be understood in two different ways
amphibology
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gradation ascendante
auxesis
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gradation descendante
catacosmesis
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arguing with oneself, asking q° and answering them
antypophora
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humour noir
gallow humour
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a conversation made up of clever replies and witticisms
repartee
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dry and mocking humour
wry humour
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une touch d'humour
a stroke of humour
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satire indirecte (via comportement absurde des psg)
menippean satire
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démolir les conventions de
to puncture the conventions of
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la satire a pour cible
to aim one's satire at
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décrier les absurdités humaines
to decry human inconsistencies
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s'élever contre
to inveigh against
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une critique cinglante
a scathing criticism
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accusation du vice
the arraignment of vice
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prononcer une diatribe
to utter a diatrib against
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prétérition
apophasis
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a voice wich keeps hovering between self-pity and self-mokery
romantic irony
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le sens immédiat, explicite
the ostensible meaning
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le décalage entre ce qui est affirmé et ce qui est signifié
the discrepancy between what is asserted and what is meant
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un centon
a cento
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héroï-comique
mock-epic
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le traitement déflationniste du thème de
the deflationary treatment of the theme of
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un parallèle ridicule
a ludicrous parallel
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l'imitation de
the mimicry of
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un pathos qui aboutit à qqc de ridicule, commonplace
bathos
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défamiliarisation -> image mise au premier plan = effet de ??
foregrounding
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une image au sens fixe / flottant
fixed / floating
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une image qui apparaît partout dans une oeuvre
obsessive image
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une image tirée du champ de
an image drawn from the field of
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la ligne prend une force symbolique
the line takes on a symbolic force
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succession of metaphoros progressing climactically -> same tenor but different vehicles
exergasia
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He is not a saint
a reverse metaphor
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une métaphore usée, cliché / nouvelle
a hackneyed metaphor / fresh
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une image evoquant ..
carries undertones of
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Northrop Frye's distinction between to styles : literary / close to diction
Hieratic / demotic
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censurer des passages
to expurgate / bowdlerize passages
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binary rythms, amplifications ->
ciceronian style
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highly rhetorical, excessively balanced, affected style
euphuistic
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affected, flamboyant, startling style (often Metaphysical poets)
marinism
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highly ornamented style
asianism
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affected and precious style
dandyism (Oscar Wilde, decadent writers of the end of the 19th cty)
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an ornate and overwrought passage which sounds contrived and artificial is called a
purple patch
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verbose, redundant style
otiose style / logorrhea
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rambling and imprecise style
a prosy style
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périmé, démodé
stale
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un style banal
trite style
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un style fort, simple et unpretentious
doric
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effet de dentelle, de déchiquètement irrégulier
jaggedness
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pejorative word to reer to specialized language
cant
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déformer l'orthographe pour imiter un dialecte
eye-dialect
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Les silhouettes se détachent sur un arrière-plan de
Figures are seen against a background of
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tout est subordonné à la figure centrale
Everything is subordinated to the central figure
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un portrait en buste
the portrait is a bust lengh
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un portrait de la têt aux pieds
a full length
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the contrast of light and shade
chiaroscuro
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la lumière donne du relief au tableau
the lighting gives relief to the painting
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the contours nets
strong outlines
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la touche du peintre
the brushwork (broad, swift, brisk, free)
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la distance entre la camera et la scène
the range of view
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la prise de vue qui ouvert une séquence et montre le décor
the establishing shot
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une vue sur le sujet qui remplit alors le cadre
full shot
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un gros plan
close up
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un zoom
zoom shot
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importance égale de l'arrière plan et du premier plan
a deep focus shot
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un vue d'oiseau
a bird's eye view
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un vue prise du sol
a low angle shot
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un mouvement ou la caméra pivote horizontalement
a pan

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