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Put your advanced French skills to the test with this crossword focused on discourse structures — the connectors, markers, and rhetorical devices that give French texts their flow and coherence. From argumentative transitions to narrative organizers, this puzzle challenges your ability to think analytically about the language at C1 level.
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Fill in the grid: pick a square, read the clue and type your answer.
Clues
Across
- 3. Organization of a text or speech
- 7. Unit of text with one main idea
- 9. Legal file or case folder
- 12. Act of producing an utterance
- 13. Logical consistency of a text
- 14. Sometimes
Down
- 1. Would dare, conditional modal use
- 2. Next
- 4. To restate an idea differently
- 5. Effect produced by a speech act
- 6. Twilight, dusk at day's end
- 8. Introductory part of a discourse
- 10. To be able
- 11. Frequently, many times
Answers
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Across
- 3. Organization of a text or speech → structure
- 7. Unit of text with one main idea → paragraphe
- 9. Legal file or case folder → dossier
- 12. Act of producing an utterance → enonciation
- 13. Logical consistency of a text → coherence
- 14. Sometimes → parfois
Down
- 1. Would dare, conditional modal use → oserait
- 2. Next → prochain
- 4. To restate an idea differently → reformuler
- 5. Effect produced by a speech act → perlocution
- 6. Twilight, dusk at day's end → crepuscule
- 8. Introductory part of a discourse → preface
- 10. To be able → pouvoir
- 11. Frequently, many times → souvent
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