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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A character type deriving his name from the Florentine writer of The Prince (1469-1527), a sinister resourceful and unscrupulous villain	Machiavel	100%
A public declaration of literary, philosophical or religious beliefs	Manifesto	75%
A figure of speech in which one thing is described in terms of another	Metaphor	75%
Refers to the pattern of stressed and unstressed syllables in verse. In English, this is based on stress rather than quantity	Meter	75%
The prize for fiction in English open to any writer from the Commonwealth of Republic of Ireland. Winners include Arundhati Roy, Julian Barnes and Kazuo Ishiguro	Man Booker Prize	50%
An Indian religious chant	Mantra	50%
The use of words incorrectly, often polysyllabic ones	Malapropism	25%
A well-educated, well-read, civilized and perhaps learned person - who may also be a writer	Man of Letters	25%
A figure of speech which contains an understatement for emphasis	Meiosis	25%
A form of novel which purports to be a 'true' autobiographical- account but which is wholly or mostly fictitious	Memoir-novel	25%
Any work of fiction which seems preoccupied by its own fictionality or with the nature of fiction generally	Metafiction	25%
One of the two major epics composed in Sanskrit verse, alongside the Ramayana	Mahabharata	0%
A proposition which consists of a pithy, succinct statement (usually a sentence or two)	Maxim	0%
A recently coined term used to denote the body of contemporary writing published at the turn of the 21st c. In Britain, it came into use with the publication of Zadie Smith's White Teeth in 2000	Milennial fiction	0%
The conscious cetration of a myth. In literature, the appropriation and reworking of mythical material, or the creation of a kind of private mythology	Mythopoeia	0%

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