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Statistics for Literary Terms - B
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- This quiz has been taken 12 times
- The average score is 4 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Literary movement which emphasised being down-and-out, down-beat or a drop-out. | Beat | 71%
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| An ancient poetic form which, in Europe, flourished from the late Middle Ages treating topics from legend and folklore as well as from local and national history | Ballad | 57%
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| Meaning literary an 'unbringing' or 'education' novel | Bildungsroman | 57%
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| Humour treatment of the shocking, horrific and macabre | Black Comedy | 43%
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| Excessive praise or veneration of Shakespeare | Bardolatry | 29%
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| Poetry written with regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always in iambic pentameter. | Blank Verse | 29%
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| A metrical foot consisting of one unstressed metrical foot followed by two stressed ones. Rare in English verse. | Bacchius | 14%
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| A word or expression which is badly formed according to traditional philological rules, e.g. a word formed from elements of different languages, such as breathalyser | Barbarism | 14%
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| An effect of anticlimax created by an unintentional lapse in mood from the sublime to the trivial or ridiculous. | Bathos | 14%
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| An often allegorical tale in which animals are characters and embark on a psuedo-epic journey. | Beast Epic | 14%
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| A descriptive or anecdotal treatise on various kinds of animal, especially a medieval work with a moralizing tone. | Bestiary | 14%
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| A tendency towards escapist daydreaming in which the dreamer imagines himself or herself to be a hero or heroine in a romance, e.g: Flaubert's Emma. | Bovarysme | 14%
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| A swaggering, lazy man who is usually a coward. | Braggadocio | 14%
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| Six line stanza rhyming aabab, the first, second, third and fifth lines are tetrameters and the others dimeters. | Burns Stanza | 14%
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| Inflated and extravagant language | Bombast | 0%
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