Statistics for Literary Terms - V, W

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The capacity for inventive thought and quick understanding; keen intelligence	Wit	80%
Any of the four collections forming the earliest body of Indian scripture	Vedas	60%
A character's perspective in the story, perhaps depending on their relationship to power structures, gender or political leanings	Viewpoint	60%
A story or play about a murder in which the identity of the murderer is not revealed until the end	Whodunnit	60%
A novel which focuses on the experiences of proletarians	Working-Class Novel	40%
A type of jargon language used by verbocrats, and thus dear to bureaucrats and semi-literate officials of all kinds	Verbocrap	20%
A brief evocative description, account or episode	Vignette	20%
Rhyme in which the same vowel sounds are used with different consonants in the stressed syllables of the rhyming words, as in penitent and reticence	Vowel Rhyme	20%
An act or work which offends social norms	Vulgarity	20%
The appearance of being true or real	Verisimilitude	0%
The artistic preference of contemporary everyday subject matter instead of the heroic or legendary in art and literature; it is a form of realism.	Verism	0%
Willingness to suspend one's critical faculties and believe the unbelievable; sacrifice of realism and logic for the sake of enjoyment	Willing Suspension of Disbelief	0%