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Statistics for Literary Terms - O
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- This quiz has been taken 5 times
- The average score is 5 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| A figure of speech which combines contradictory or incongruous words for a special effect; Milton's 'darkness visible' or Lamb's 'honest thief'. | Oxymoron | 100%
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| The formation and use of words to imitate sounds | Onomatopoeia | 80%
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| A lyric poem, typically one in the form of an address to a particular subject, written in varied or irregular metre | Ode | 60%
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| A term which refers to the Orient as defined and, in a sense, 'invented' by Europe and the West | Orientalism | 60%
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| Verse written for a particular occasion | Occasional Verse | 40%
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| An edition of an entire author's works in one volume | Omnibus | 40%
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| A play of only one act | One Act Play | 40%
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| A concept which might signify any act or statement deemed offensive or derogatory to the dominant culture, especially in terms of moral, sexual or religious taboos | Obscenity | 20%
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| A line of eight feet | Octameter | 20%
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| A stanza of fourteen imabic tetrameters rhyming ababccddeffegg | Onegin Stanza | 20%
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| A term coined by Umberto Eco (1932-2016) to describe a text which invites a variety of readings | Open Text | 20%
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| A group founded in 1960 which specialized in playful language games to generate their works - novels which lack a certain letter of the alphabet, for example | Oulipo | 20%
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| The artistic and literary technique of representing or evoking a particular emotion by means of symbols which become indicative of that emotion and are associated with it | Objective Correlative | 0%
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| Term used to describe pompous, abstract, euphemistic, polysyllabic and circumlocutory language used by officials, bureaucrats, politicians and sociologists | Officialese | 0%
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| A word or line of verse with the accent on the last syllable | Oxytone | 0%
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