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  1. 1.What does the expression 'couper les cheveux en quatre' mean?

    • •To get a very short haircut
    • •To be excessively meticulous or complicated
    • •To divide something into equal parts
    • •To act quickly

  2. 2.In the sentence 'C'est en forgeant qu'on devient forgeron', what is the grammatical construction?

    • •Infinitif
    • •Gérondif
    • •Participe présent
    • •Conditionnel

  3. 3.What figure of speech is used in 'Je meurs de soif' (I'm dying of thirst)?

    • •Métonymie
    • •Hyperbole
    • •Euphémisme
    • •Oxymore

  4. 4.What is the opposite of 'prolixe' (verbose)?

    • •Verbeux
    • •Loquace
    • •Concis
    • •Bavard

  5. 5.What is 'le discours indirect libre' in French literary analysis?

    • •Quoting dialogue without quotation marks
    • •The use of reported speech in historical narration
    • •A narrative technique blending a character's inner thoughts with the narrator's perspective without explicit attribution
    • •First-person narration where the narrator is unreliable

  6. 6.What distinguishes 'négation totale' from 'négation partielle' in French?

    • •Total negation applies to the whole sentence; partial only to the verb
    • •'Ne...rien/jamais/personne/plus' are total negations; 'ne...pas' is partial, negating the predicate without implying universal scope
    • •They distinguish written vs spoken negation respectively
    • •Partial negation uses 'pas'; total negation solely uses 'point' (literary alternative)

  7. 7.What does 'l'imparfait à valeur de conditionnel passé' mean?

    • •The literary use of imparfait to replace the passé simple
    • •Using the imparfait always as a synonym for the conditionnel passé
    • •Using the imparfait in si-clauses to express a counterfactual condition (e.g., 'sans toi, je mourais') in an elevated register
    • •Using the imparfait to express a future promise

  8. 8.How does the usage of 'on' differ by register in French?

    • •'On' is an archaic pronoun no longer used in modern French
    • •Formally it is indefinite, but informally it often replaces 'nous'
    • •'On' always refers to a specific unnamed person and cannot replace 'nous'
    • •'On' is exclusively used in formal writing and never in speech

  9. 9.What is the literary device 'zeugme' (zeugma) in French rhetoric?

    • •A rhetorical question asked for effect without expecting an answer
    • •A figure using the part to refer to the whole (synecdoche)
    • •The repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses
    • •A figure joining two logically incompatible elements under the same governing word, creating a comic or striking effect

  10. 10.Who was Émile Zola and what is naturalism in French literature?

    • •A 19th-century novelist who applied scientific determinism to fiction, depicting how heredity and environment shape human behavior
    • •A poet who founded the Symbolist movement focused on musical suggestion
    • •A 18th-century philosopher who advocated returning to nature over civilization
    • •A 20th-century novelist who wrote in the stream-of-consciousness tradition