The art of narrative Flashcards

(37 cards)

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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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3
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l’intrigue inférieure

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the underplot / the counterplot / the minor plot

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4
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une incise

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an interpolated phrase

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5
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le schéma narratif

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the pattern of the plot (dramatic / episodic)

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6
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la situation initiale

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the exposition

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7
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l’élément perturbateur

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the inciting moment / the initiating event / the catalytic event

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8
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faire démarrer l’action

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to trigger the action off

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9
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l’acmé

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the climax

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10
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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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12
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le déroulement de l’action

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the unraveling of the action

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13
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la tension diminue

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the tension subsides / lessens / slackens

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14
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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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15
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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

18
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une information retardée / retenue

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delayed / withheld information

19
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un champ de perception

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a field of perception

20
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le récit passe de…à

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the narrative shifts back and forth from…to…

21
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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

22
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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

23
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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
detached / involved
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un narrateur auquel on ne peut pas faire confiance
unreliable / fallible
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un narrateur trompé / berné / lucide
deluded / lucid
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un point de vue défectueux
flawed focalizer
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novels by Samuel Beckett, John Hawkes or Donald Barthelme are
antirealistic novels
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roman d'apprentissage
bildungsroman
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an aphorism expressing a widely accepted principle
an axiom
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an unbelievable, long, rambling and absurd story
a cock-and-bull story
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a medieval tale of war and adventure
gest
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writing that lament or complain about the condition of man, or announce coming doom
jeremiad
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a harsh and bitter satire against one person
a lampoon
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a novel with a thesis or which centres on a human or social problem
problem novel
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a question or a statement put in an ingenious way and whose answer requires some puzzling out.
a riddle