Les émotions at C2 — the literary register
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How emotion is rendered in literature and refined speech.
📓 Le registre littéraire
1🔊
elation/joy
2🔊
dread/terror
3🔊
distress/confusion
4🔊
exaltation
5🔊
melancholy
6🔊
bitterness
7🔊
to be gripped by
8🔊
a fit of anger
9🔊
overwhelmed by emotion
10🔊
bliss
🔊 Example sentences
Une allégresse indescriptible l’envahit.An indescribable joy overcame him.
Il était en proie au désarroi.He was gripped by distress.
Un accès de colère le saisit.A fit of anger seized him.
💡 Your C2 goal
At C2 this is about mastery of the edge cases and literary or formal uses. You should be able to explain the rule — and break it knowingly for effect.
Feeling shaky? Step back to Les Emotions at C1. Comfortable? Level up to Les Emotions at Native.
Elle fut submergée par l’émotion.She was overwhelmed by emotion.
✍️ Practice
Il était en ___ à l’effroi. (gripped by) (literary)
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proie
Un ___ de colère. (fit) (noun)
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accès
Une ___ indescriptible. (elation) (noun)
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allégresse
🎮 Practise
🃏 Memory match pair FR ↔ EN
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