Literary Terms Quiz (Hard)

There is a literary term used for each sentence shown here. Can you guess what it is?

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Hint	Term
A line of six Iambic feet instead of five.	Alexandrine
Book or table comprising a calendar of days, weeks and months.	Almanac
Discovery in Tragedy	Anagnorisis
It comprises of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one	Anapaest
Dominance of Man in all social and intellectual activities.	Androcentrism
Collection of poetry or prose from diverse sources	Anthology
Signifies the setting of one thing against another	Antitheisis
Short statement of truth or dogma couched in memorable terms	Aphorism
Slang or coarse vernacular language.	Argot
A term to denote anticlimax	Bathos
These are the words of phrase or description of a book in a nutshell	Blurb
To cleanse a work by ommitting or cutting out indecent passages, phrases or words.	Bowdlerize
Rhythm and phrasing of language	Cadence
Break between words in a metrical foot	Caesura
Division of an epic or a narrative poem	Canto
Suggested or implied meaning of the word	Connotation
When a work achieves complete satisfaction on all counts.	Consummation
One accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones	Dactyl
The objective meaning of the sentence or phrase	Denotation
The conclusion of a comedy	Denoument
"Devil out of the Machine"	Diabolus Ex Machina
When a writer starts induldging in the side plot instead of the main plot	Digression
Gleaning of facts and ideas from different sources instead of one,	Electicism
A brief pointed statement in prose or in verse.	Epigram
Direct address to another person, a letter in the form of a verse.	Epistle
Valediction to dead person or persons; inscription on a tomb or a grave	Epitaph
Ths doctrine that the state should have supremacy over the church in eclesiastical matters	Erastianism
An ornate, floral style of writing popularized by John Lyly	Euphuism
Use of ornate, pompous, and bombasitc language	Fustian

Hint	Term
Geographical Dictionary or index	Gazetteer
Person who undertakes literary work for another who takes the credit	Ghost Writer
Omission in utterance if a sound resembling neighbouring sounds	Haplology
The inadvertent writing of what should have been written once	Haplography
A couplet written in Iambic pentameter	Heroic Couplet
A work that urges the readers to take on a high moralistic standards	Homily
A word which has the same pronounciation and spelling as the other, but has different meanings and origin	Homograph
Understatement used by writers used to emphasis the desired meaning	Litotes
Movement of late 17th and 18th centuries reviving classical values in English Literature	Neoclassicism
A fictitious name used by a writer to represent his work	Nom de Plume
Dramatic representation pertaining to a myth, legend or traditional tale.	Pantomime
A rhetorical device in which balancing sentences, phrases, or words are used to enhance effect	Paralellism
Refers to excessive display of knowledge	Pedantry
Sudden change in fortune of a hero in a play - usually good to bad	Peripeteia
A round about way of saying a thing	Periphrasis
Study of literature, language or linguistics	Philology
Chronicle of adventures of a rogue	Picaresque
Truth or generalization which is too well known mainly because of its overuse	Platitude
Use of words more than absolutely necessary (He sat DOWN on the ground)	Pleonasm
Work written to gain the authour a livelihood	Potboiler
Concise statement or short summary of a work	Precis
Study of handling a language in poetry	Prosody
When the past or future is written in the present tense	Prosopopaeia
Novel based upon actual people under disguised names	Roman a Clef
Languages that have emerged straightaway from Latin and/Greek	Romance Languages
Writers and editors can use it to highlight grammar errors in quoted text	Sic
Overuse of synonyms or Repetition of ideas	Tautology
Manual or handbook carried for frequent reference.	Vade Mecum

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