VOCABULARY
How do you say "clumsy" in French?
MALADROIT
What is the following figure of speech: "Juliet is the sun" : implicit comparison between two different things with no term of comparison
metaphore
What event gave birth to the Great Depression?
WHEN?
The Wall Street Stock Exchange crash in 1929 (October 24th)
What modal auxiliary do you use to express a hypothesis/supposition
May /might + verb (not conjugated)
What famous tale was revisited by Roald Dahl?
Little Red Riding Hood
How do you say " régulièrement" in English (The Tell-Tale-Heart")?
STEADILY
What is the following metaphore: "'Tis but thy name that is my enemy"
= Giving human characteristicss to something that is not human
personification
What is socially denounced in the rewriting of fairy tales by English speaking authors?
THE INFERIORITY OF WOMEN
=women as not being on an equal footing with men
How to use the comparative for short adjectives?
(1 syllables or 2 syllable with -y ending)
EX: small
you must add -er at the end of the adjective:
=> smaller +than
What is the purpose of the PROLOGUE in Romeo and Juliet?
To introduce the characters, their specificities, the place...
It is an introduction read by a character in Drama
= Le Choeur
Birds of a feather flock together
Narrative technique when everything is seen from the eyes of a character
internal focalization
Which states were the most affected by the Dust Bowl?
2 STATES MINIMUM
OKLAHOMA
KANSAS
NEBRASKATEXAS
SOUTH DAKOTA
COMPLETE WITH THE CORRECT TENSE
When Gretel (enter) the room, the old lady (cook)
When Gretel entered the room, the old lady was cooking
What is the nationality of the famous band Steppenwolf who sang " Born to Be Wild" in 1969?
Canadian
How do you say "amour non réciproque" in English?
UNREQUITED LOVE
How would you define the gothic genre?
BLEAK AND DULL SETTING
CHARACTERS IN PHYSICAL TORMENTS
PRESENCE OF SUPERNATURAL
violence, macabre atmosphere
REMOTE LOCATIONS like forests, castles
Who were the people called the "Groundlings" in the Globe theatre?
Poor people sitting on the ground in front of the stage (exposed to weather)
SLANG
How do you translate into standard English?
« Tell me like you done before ! »
Tell me the same story which you have told before (which : pronom relatif ici)
Or => Tell me as you did before
What's THE FUNCTION OF CROOKS THE BLACKMAN IN OF MICE AND MEN?
STABLE BUCK (stable man)
= garçon d'écurie
How do you say " la prévoyance"
foresight
What is the name of the famous Scottish poet who wrote the poem which inspired the title Of Mice and Men?
Robert Burns (18th century)
=The best laid schemes of mice and men. Often go wrong and leave us nothing but grief and pain, Instead of promised joy!)
It is about a mouse which carefully builds a winter nest in a wheat field, only for it to be destroyed by a ploughman.
During Shakespeare time (the Elizabethan era) London was separated by the river Thames from an ill reputed era called....
Complete the following sentence to express opposition:
Jim likes cheese,
whereas Tom................. (= and not Tom)
Jim likes cheese, whereas Tom doesn't
Where do Thelma and Louise plan to escape (country)
Mexico