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Source : The Literary Guide

assuré, péremptoire = assertive
autoritaire = authoritative
paillard = bawdy
partial, subjectif = biased
grandiloquent = bombastic, high-flown
très cliché = cliché-ridden
détaillé, minutieux (regard, examen) = close
contradictoire (idées, aspects, champs sémantiques) = conflicting
peu naturel, artificiel = contrived
enchâssé (histoires, mots) = embedded
simple, peu complexe (personnage) = flat
formel (ton) = formal
rebattu, galvaudé (langage) = hackneyed
étroitement liés = interrelated
élogieux = laudatory
général, d'ensemble (impression, effet) = overall
simplifié à l'extrême = oversimplified
péjoratif, désobligeant = pejorative, disparaging
central (idée) = pivotal
lourd de signification (moment) = pregnant
récurrent = recurring
pertinent = relevant, salient
qui abonde en = rich in
complexe (personnage) = round
cinglant, acerbe = scathing
phare (oeuvre) = seminal
type, cliché, courant = stock, stereotyped
qui suggère = suggestive of
effacé, discret = unobtrusive

point = full stop (BR), period (US)
virgule = comma
point-virgule = semicolon
deux points = colon
tiret (mots composés) = hyphen
tiret (cassure dans la phrase, apposition) = dash
points de suspension = dots
parenthèses = brackets (BR mostly), parentheses
crochets = square brackets

alexandrin = alexandrine
allégorie = allegory
allitération = alliteration
anagramme = anagram
analepse = analepsis
anaphore = anaphora
anapeste = anapest
antithèse = antithesis
assonance = assonance
ballade = ballad
burlesque = burlesque
chiasme = chiasmus
néologisme = coinage, coined words
comédie de moeurs = comedy of manners
discours indirect libre = free indirect speech/discourse
distique = couplet
double sens = double entendre
élégie = elegy
ellipse = ellipsis
épopée = epic
épître = epistle
euphémisme = euphemism
hyperbole = hyperbole
jeu de mots = pun
métaphore = metaphor
métonymie = metonymy
mètre = meter
oxymore = oxymoron
palindrome = palindrome
parabole = parable
paradoxe = paradox
parodie = parody
pastiche = pastiche
pastoral = pastoral
picaresque = picaresque
prolepse = prolepsis
satire = satire
synecdoque = synecdoche
synesthésie = synaesthesia
vers blanc = blank verse
vers libre = free verse

anapeste = anapest
dactyle = dactyl
iambe = iamb
pyrrhique = pyrric
spondée = spondee
trochée = trochee