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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The scientific study of language	Linguistics	100%
Term applied to Wordsworth, Coleridge and Southy. Derives from the name of an area of natural beuaty in northern England	Lake Poets	75%
An expression of deep regret or sorrow for the loss of a person or position	Lament	75%
The text of an opera or operetta	Libretto	75%
A musical term which first used in a literary context by Thomas Mann and used it to denote a recurrent theme or unit. For example, the hunted man and betrayal in the novels of Graham Greene	Leitmotif	50%
A word imported from another language	Loan Word	50%
A word, phrase or grammatical construction based on a Latin form or model	Latinism	25%
A short narrative or lyrical poem intended to be sung	Lay	25%
The term for the actual vocabulary of the author	Lexis	25%
A formal structural division in a poem, normally classified according to the number of feet it contains	Line	25%
A figure of speech that uses understatement to emphasize a point by stating a negative to further affirm a positive, often incorporating double negatives for effect	Litotes	25%
A religious poem or song adapted from the liturgy	Lauda	0%
A traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated	Legend	0%
When the stress falls evenly on two syllables in the same word e.g. buckwheat; gang plank	Level stress	0%
A loose term for plays which are airy, graceful, amusing and light-hearted	Light Comedy	0%
Stress on a word which is not normally accented in speech. Extensively used in Poe's The Raven	Light Stress	0%

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