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Hint	Answer	% Correct
A portrait which ridicules a person through exaggurating their negative features	Caricature	69%
The process of releasing, and thereby providing relief from, strong or repressed emotions. Aristotle discussed this in relation to the theraputic effects of the tragedy	Catharsis	62%
In the plays of Sophocles in particular, a group of people who comment on the action of place	Chorus	62%
A style which values artifice, excess and misplaced seriousness	Camp	46%
A novel set on university grounds	Campus Novel	46%
In this form, harsh sounds are used delibertely by writers, especially poets, to achieve a particular effect e.g: 'The bare black cliff clanged round him'	Cacophony	31%
A break or pause in a line of poetry, dictated by the natural rhythm of the language and/or punctuation	Caesura	31%
Word meaning the natural rhythm of language depending on the arrangement of stressed and unstressed syllables	Cadence	23%
A subdivision of an epic or narrative poem remnisicent of a chapter	Canto	15%
An academic field dealing with the study of literature and cultural expression across linguistic, national, and disciplinary boundaries.	Comparative literature	15%
The use of a word in an incorrect way, for example the use of mitigate for militate. It also applies to strained metaphors i.e: blind mouths	Catachresis	8%
A reversal of grammatical structures in successive phrases or clauses e.g: 'His time a moment, and a point a space'	Chiasmus	8%
An iamb and a trochee combined to make a metrical foot of two stressed syllables sandwiching two unstressed ones / u u /.	Choriambus	8%
A short comic or nonsensical verse, typically in two rhyming couplets with lines of unequal length and referring to a famous person	Clerihew	8%
Words in the middle of each line rhyme, e.g 'Thou hast conquered, O pale Galilean; the world has grown gret from thy breath // We have drunken of things Lethean, and fed on the fullness of death.'	Cross-rhyme	8%

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