Statistics for Literary Terms Quiz (Hard)

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Hint	Term	% Correct
Person who undertakes literary work for another who takes the credit	Ghost Writer	100%
Collection of poetry or prose from diverse sources	Anthology	75%
Dominance of Man in all social and intellectual activities.	Androcentrism	50%
A term to denote anticlimax	Bathos	50%
To cleanse a work by ommitting or cutting out indecent passages, phrases or words.	Bowdlerize	50%
Suggested or implied meaning of the word	Connotation	50%
Valediction to dead person or persons; inscription on a tomb or a grave	Epitaph	50%
Understatement used by writers used to emphasis the desired meaning	Litotes	50%
Movement of late 17th and 18th centuries reviving classical values in English Literature	Neoclassicism	50%
Study of literature, language or linguistics	Philology	50%
Chronicle of adventures of a rogue	Picaresque	50%
Work written to gain the authour a livelihood	Potboiler	50%
A line of six Iambic feet instead of five.	Alexandrine	25%
Book or table comprising a calendar of days, weeks and months.	Almanac	25%
Discovery in Tragedy	Anagnorisis	25%
It comprises of two unaccented syllables followed by an accented one	Anapaest	25%
Signifies the setting of one thing against another	Antitheisis	25%
Short statement of truth or dogma couched in memorable terms	Aphorism	25%
These are the words of phrase or description of a book in a nutshell	Blurb	25%
Rhythm and phrasing of language	Cadence	25%
Break between words in a metrical foot	Caesura	25%
Division of an epic or a narrative poem	Canto	25%
When a work achieves complete satisfaction on all counts.	Consummation	25%
One accented syllable followed by two unaccented ones	Dactyl	25%
The objective meaning of the sentence or phrase	Denotation	25%
The conclusion of a comedy	Denoument	25%
"Devil out of the Machine"	Diabolus Ex Machina	25%
When a writer starts induldging in the side plot instead of the main plot	Digression	25%
Direct address to another person, a letter in the form of a verse.	Epistle	25%
An ornate, floral style of writing popularized by John Lyly	Euphuism	25%
Use of ornate, pompous, and bombasitc language	Fustian	25%
Geographical Dictionary or index	Gazetteer	25%
The inadvertent writing of what should have been written once	Haplography	25%
Omission in utterance if a sound resembling neighbouring sounds	Haplology	25%
A couplet written in Iambic pentameter	Heroic Couplet	25%
A work that urges the readers to take on a high moralistic standards	Homily	25%
A word which has the same pronounciation and spelling as the other, but has different meanings and origin	Homograph	25%
A fictitious name used by a writer to represent his work	Nom de Plume	25%
Dramatic representation pertaining to a myth, legend or traditional tale.	Pantomime	25%
A rhetorical device in which balancing sentences, phrases, or words are used to enhance effect	Paralellism	25%
Refers to excessive display of knowledge	Pedantry	25%
Sudden change in fortune of a hero in a play - usually good to bad	Peripeteia	25%
Concise statement or short summary of a work	Precis	25%
Novel based upon actual people under disguised names	Roman a Clef	25%
Writers and editors can use it to highlight grammar errors in quoted text	Sic	25%
Overuse of synonyms or Repetition of ideas	Tautology	25%
Slang or coarse vernacular language.	Argot	0%
Gleaning of facts and ideas from different sources instead of one,	Electicism	0%
A brief pointed statement in prose or in verse.	Epigram	0%
Ths doctrine that the state should have supremacy over the church in eclesiastical matters	Erastianism	0%
A round about way of saying a thing	Periphrasis	0%
Truth or generalization which is too well known mainly because of its overuse	Platitude	0%
Use of words more than absolutely necessary (He sat DOWN on the ground)	Pleonasm	0%
Study of handling a language in poetry	Prosody	0%
When the past or future is written in the present tense	Prosopopaeia	0%
Languages that have emerged straightaway from Latin and/Greek	Romance Languages	0%
Manual or handbook carried for frequent reference.	Vade Mecum	0%