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Literary Terms Quiz (Hard) - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 14 times
- The average score is 9 of 57
Answer Stats
| Hint | Term | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Collection of poetry or prose from diverse sources | Anthology | 45%
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| Valediction to dead person or persons; inscription on a tomb or a grave | Epitaph | 45%
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| Person who undertakes literary work for another who takes the credit | Ghost Writer | 45%
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| Understatement used by writers used to emphasis the desired meaning | Litotes | 45%
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| Break between words in a metrical foot | Caesura | 36%
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| Book or table comprising a calendar of days, weeks and months. | Almanac | 27%
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| A term to denote anticlimax | Bathos | 27%
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| Division of an epic or a narrative poem | Canto | 27%
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| Suggested or implied meaning of the word | Connotation | 27%
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| The conclusion of a comedy | Denoument | 27%
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| Movement of late 17th and 18th centuries reviving classical values in English Literature | Neoclassicism | 27%
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| Study of literature, language or linguistics | Philology | 27%
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| Chronicle of adventures of a rogue | Picaresque | 27%
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| Work written to gain the authour a livelihood | Potboiler | 27%
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| Discovery in Tragedy | Anagnorisis | 18%
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| Dominance of Man in all social and intellectual activities. | Androcentrism | 18%
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| To cleanse a work by ommitting or cutting out indecent passages, phrases or words. | Bowdlerize | 18%
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| One accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones | Dactyl | 18%
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| The objective meaning of the sentence or phrase | Denotation | 18%
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| A couplet written in Iambic pentameter | Heroic Couplet | 18%
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| A word which has the same pronounciation and spelling as the other, but has different meanings and origin | Homograph | 18%
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| A fictitious name used by a writer to represent his work | Nom de Plume | 18%
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| Sudden change in fortune of a hero in a play - usually good to bad | Peripeteia | 18%
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| A line of six Iambic feet instead of five. | Alexandrine | 9%
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| It comprises of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one | Anapaest | 9%
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| Signifies the setting of one thing against another | Antitheisis | 9%
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| Short statement of truth or dogma couched in memorable terms | Aphorism | 9%
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| These are the words of phrase or description of a book in a nutshell | Blurb | 9%
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| Rhythm and phrasing of language | Cadence | 9%
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| When a work achieves complete satisfaction on all counts. | Consummation | 9%
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| "Devil out of the Machine" | Diabolus Ex Machina | 9%
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| When a writer starts induldging in the side plot instead of the main plot | Digression | 9%
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| A brief pointed statement in prose or in verse. | Epigram | 9%
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| Direct address to another person, a letter in the form of a verse. | Epistle | 9%
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| An ornate, floral style of writing popularized by John Lyly | Euphuism | 9%
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| Use of ornate, pompous, and bombasitc language | Fustian | 9%
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| Geographical Dictionary or index | Gazetteer | 9%
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| The inadvertent writing of what should have been written once | Haplography | 9%
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| Omission in utterance if a sound resembling neighbouring sounds | Haplology | 9%
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| A work that urges the readers to take on a high moralistic standards | Homily | 9%
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| Dramatic representation pertaining to a myth, legend or traditional tale. | Pantomime | 9%
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| A rhetorical device in which balancing sentences, phrases, or words are used to enhance effect | Paralellism | 9%
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| Refers to excessive display of knowledge | Pedantry | 9%
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| A round about way of saying a thing | Periphrasis | 9%
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| Concise statement or short summary of a work | Precis | 9%
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| Study of handling a language in poetry | Prosody | 9%
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| Novel based upon actual people under disguised names | Roman a Clef | 9%
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| Languages that have emerged straightaway from Latin and/Greek | Romance Languages | 9%
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| Writers and editors can use it to highlight grammar errors in quoted text | Sic | 9%
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| Overuse of synonyms or Repetition of ideas | Tautology | 9%
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| Slang or coarse vernacular language. | Argot | 0%
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| Gleaning of facts and ideas from different sources instead of one, | Electicism | 0%
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| Ths doctrine that the state should have supremacy over the church in eclesiastical matters | Erastianism | 0%
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| Truth or generalization which is too well known mainly because of its overuse | Platitude | 0%
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| Use of words more than absolutely necessary (He sat DOWN on the ground) | Pleonasm | 0%
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| When the past or future is written in the present tense | Prosopopaeia | 0%
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| Manual or handbook carried for frequent reference. | Vade Mecum | 0%
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