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Literature by Letter - V

Identify these literary things that start with the letter V.
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First submittedDecember 21, 2016
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Another word for poetry
Verse
Musical instrument played by Sherlock Holmes
Violin
What the V stands for in SVO
Verb
Author of early sci-fi adventures like "Journey to the Center of the Earth"
Jules Verne
Archvillain of the "Harry Potter" series
Lord Voldemort
Thackeray novel that follows the lives of Becky Sharp and Emmy Sedley
Vanity Fair
Jeeve's profession (not actually a butler)
Valet
Nom de plume of "Candide" author François-Marie Arouet
Voltaire
Italian city where Romeo and Juliet lived
Verona
Author of "Slaughterhouse Five" and "Breakfast of Champions"
Kurt Vonnegut
Collective name for the oldest Hindu scriptures
Vedas, the
In Norse mythology, female figures who choose those who die in battle
Valkyries
The mythical realm where Norse dead were brought by the above
Valhalla
First name of Dr. Frankenstein
Victor
Roman poet who wrote the "Aeneid"
Virgil
Children's book where a stuffed rabbit desires to become a real rabbit
Velveteen Rabbit, the
Medieval writing surface made of calfskin
Vellum
Spoiled brat who visits a chocolate factory and gets dumped down
a garbage chute by trained squirrels
Veruca Salt
Best-selling novel of 1966 about three women who use pills
Valley of the Dolls
Roses are red, ______ are blue
Violets
ylj
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Level 54
Dec 21, 2016
I like these literature quizzes.
Kestrana
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Level 60
Dec 22, 2016
Thanks very much!
deannhale
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Level 95
Dec 26, 2016
It was Violet Beauregarde who got turned into a blueberry in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, not Veruca Salt. But at least they both start with V. :)
Djilas
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Level 82
Dec 27, 2016
True
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Dec 27, 2016
D'oh! That was my fault. Fixed the clue.
roleybob
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Level 75
Dec 30, 2016
I always thought it was very strange that Americans think Veruca is a nice name for a person, nearly as bad as calling someone melena.

I guess they must have a different word for the foot wart thing

joeythelemur
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Level 84
Jan 3, 2017
Who says that "Americans think Veruca is a nice name for a person"? Just because it is the character name in a fairly popular novel/film doesn't mean that everything thinks it's great.

Have a look here: http://www.babynamewizard.com/voyager#prefix=veruca&sw=both&exact=true

brandybuck96
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Level 83
Nov 7, 2023
Interestingly, the year after your comment, there was a blip in which 5 whole people were named Veruca in the USA
punkybrewster
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Level 80
Mar 6, 2017
I'm pretty sure everyone knows Veruca is a horrible name. And Roald Dahl was British.
PoetsCorner
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Level 85
Oct 5, 2022
That moment when the anti-American sentiment on this site gets so virulent, that the U.S. is blamed for the naming traditions of other countries and cultures, including characters in books written by a Welshman.
samiamco
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Level 69
Dec 28, 2016
Oy. I think many more than 23% know what "SVO" all stand for, but were totally thrown by the context, as I think it's really stretching it to expect we'd make a link to "literature"! How about expanding the clue a bit to make it clear it's talking about sentence structure/diagramming, or at least that it relates to proper grammatical format in writing?
sumguy
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Level 84
Dec 29, 2016
Nope, I've never seen SVO before. I somehow managed to become a writer without learning it.
pitzikat
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Level 74
Dec 31, 2016
I googled SVO and got an airport in Russiaand then SVO in literature and the closest thing to literature was social value orientation

All I can say is, if google doesn't see it . . .

Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Jan 1, 2017
Third result for me is the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subject%E2%80%93verb%E2%80%93object

fitheach
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Level 59
Aug 3, 2017
I was surprised to see SVO on this quiz. On a linguistics quiz it would be an apt question, but it does seem out place on a literature quiz.
Ferbin
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Level 76
Aug 19, 2021
I agree.
punkybrewster
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Level 80
Mar 6, 2017
I agree. Maybe you could show the answer as Subject ____ Object.
Algernon
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Level 72
Dec 31, 2016
Surely you could accept Valkyrie for "Valkyries"?
Quizmaster
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Level ∞
Jan 1, 2017
Okay
jajaco2017
+2
Level 57
Apr 12, 2017
Securities Valuation Office
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Aug 2, 2017
Violets are blue, ancient materials, and 2 questions about Norse mythology on a literature quiz? Having trouble coming up with V answers? What about Valjean? Or the manner of creature that Bram Stoker became famous writing about?
kalbahamut
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Level 82
Aug 2, 2017
The grammar question also seems odd to file under "literature"
OfficerDibble
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Level 80
Aug 2, 2017
Should be Jeeves's or Jeeves', not Jeeve's. [/pedantry]
MikesBrain
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Level 77
Aug 2, 2017
Please could you accept 'Veda' as well as 'Vedas' - I spent ages on that one. Thanks
LarryLovage
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Level 55
Aug 2, 2017
Anyone else misread "SVO" and put "Victims" while wondering what it had to do with literature? I have no idea what SVO is, by the way.
BluUnicorn
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Level 43
Aug 2, 2017
Can you accept Valkyre for valkyries? Pretty please :-)
stone222
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Level 48
Oct 20, 2018
i thought SVO had something to do with alcohol... VSOP Very Special/Superiorl Old Pale
AbiA
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Level 83
Mar 14, 2023
Port
POOCH
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Level 72
Mar 27, 2019
I just took the "Vikings" quiz and on that quiz it asks for the hall (answer Valhalla) in the region of Asgard. After I took that quiz I did a little refresher search on Norse Mythology and it looks like the Viking quiz is correct. It doesn't look like too many people are having trouble with the question the way it is, just thought I'd point it out.
Ferbin
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Level 76
Aug 19, 2021
I was about to comment on that. Valhalla is indeed a hall, not a realm. The realm (or world) would be Asgard.
AnnikaKim
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Level 62
Jun 22, 2021
Frankenstein was not a doctor, he was a second-year university student who never finished his studies. This is a literature quiz, not a movie quiz, right?
PoetsCorner
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Level 85
Aug 3, 2023
Interesting question. If scripts written for the stage (Shakespeare, Wilde, O'Neill, etc.) are considered literature, why wouldn't scripts written for the screen (Mankiewicz, Goldman, Zaillian, etc.) also be considered literature?
Jango
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Level 64
Sep 6, 2021
I'm a linguist and I know what SVO is, but was completely thrown by it in this context.

It would be nice to see, say, Villon here (où sont les neiges d'antan?), or Verlaine perhaps, at any rate something that is more literature than linguistics.

Not a criticism! Just a suggestion as I've really enjoyed this quiz series!

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