Lesson summary
The key points to remember, for revision.
- 1C2 options differ by a nuance: check the exact strength and connotation of each word.
- 2Literary devices: metaphor, personification, free indirect speech. Ask what feeling they create.
- 3Formal markers: force est de constater, on ne saurait, pour le moins, loin de.
- 4“Curieuse vertu que…” = ironic inversion: the author criticises.
Key vocabulary
| prolixe | verbose |
| le dépouillement | starkness, sobriety |
| la lassitude | weariness |
| force est de constater | one has to admit |
| fallacieux | misleading |