day 90fiction, drafts and the stage
unit 13 · learning, letters & the artsfiction, drafts and the stage
Talk about drafts, fiction and translation, about plays and exhibitions, and say what a work is based on (N을 모티브로 하다).
today’s words
- 해학적 haehakjeok · humorous, witty
- 허구 heogu · fiction, invention
- 화자 hwaja · speaker, narrator
- 원고 wongo · manuscript, draft
- 번역가 beonyeokga · translator
- 편집자 pyeonjipja · editor
- 각본 gakbon · script, screenplay
- 개관 gaegwan · opening (of a museum, hall)
- 걸작 geoljak · masterpiece
- 공모 gongmo · open call, public competition
- 극적 geukjeok · dramatic
- 기교 gigyo · technique, skill (artistic)
- 기립 girip · standing up (기립 박수: standing ovation)
- 독창성 dokchangseong · originality
- 매니저 maenijeo · manager (of a star, a shop)
- 모티브 motibeu · motif, inspiration
- 미술가 misulga · artist (fine arts)
- 박자 bakja · beat, rhythm
- 반주 banju · (musical) accompaniment
- 배역 baeyeok · role, part (in a play)
- 벽화 byeokhwa · mural
sentences
- 소설은 허구이지만 현실을 비춘다. · A novel is fiction, but it reflects reality.
- 이 소설의 화자는 이주민 가정의 열 살 소녀이다. · The narrator of this novel is a ten-year-old girl from a migrant family.
- 그 번역가는 원고를 넘기기 전에 세 번이나 읽는다. · That translator reads a manuscript three times before handing it in.
- 편집자는 작가와 독자를 이어 주는 사람이다. · An editor is the person who connects the writer and the reader.
- 명문 학교 출신인 그 감독은 각본을 쓰고 배역도 정했다. · That director, a graduate of a top school, wrote the script and chose the cast too.