Level C2 : Mastery

Total mastery of tenses and moods

Precise and nuanced use of all tenses and moods in context.

Literary tenses

Passé antérieur, imperfect subjunctive, and pluperfect in writing.

Aspectual nuances

Completed, uncompleted, punctual, durative aspect: fine mastery.

French stylistics

Registers, tones, stylistic effects in written and oral production.

Implicit meaning and implications

Presuppositions, inferences, irony, humor, second degree.

Rhetoric and argumentation

Argumentative structures, rhetorical devices, essay writing.

Advanced figures of speech

Oxymoron, chiasmus, anaphora, allegory, synecdoche, antiphrasis...

Literary syntax

Inversions, ellipses, anacolutha, dislocations: expressive effects.