Statistics for Literary Terms - R

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The portrayal of life with fidelity and detail	Realism	100%
The art of effective or persuasive speaking or writing, especially the exploitation of figures of speech and other compositional techniques	Rhetoric	100%
A witty or clever reply. For example, Bernard Shaw meeting a very fat man on a narrow staircase. Shaw shoves his way past him. 'Pig!' said the fat man angrily. Shaw raised his hat and replied: 'Shaw. Good afternoon.'	Repartee	60%
A novel in which the author calls the reader's attention to the fact that he or she is writing (or has written) a novel	Reflexive Novel	40%
A phrase, line or lines repeated at intervals during a poem and especially at the end of a stanza	Refrain	40%
Theory concerned with the relationship between text and reader and reader and text, with the emphasis on the different ways a reader participates in the course of reading a text	Reader-response theory	20%
A term used when speaking of a tragedy to indicate that the protagonist has brought about his/her own doom	Recoil	20%
The right hand page of a book	Recto	20%
A novel which concentrates much attention on a particular area and uses it and the people who inhabit it as the basis for his or her stories	Regional Novel	20%
Another term for enjambment	Run-on line	20%
A critical revision of a literary work	Recension	0%
A jargon term for the person (or group of persons) experiencing a work of art	Receptor	0%