Types of Stories!
Above and Beyond!
Epi What?
Oh Lord!
Word Plays, Positions, and Attacks!
100
A traditional story presenting supernatural characters and episodes that help explain natural events.
What is a myth?
100
A figure of speech related to hyperbole that emphasizes the inexpressibility of something, idea, or feeling, either by stating that words cannot describe it or by comparing it with something (e.g. the heavens, the oceans) the dimensions of which cannot be grasped.
What is adynaton?
100
A moment of sudden revelation or insight.
What is epiphany?
100
A brief story that leads to a moral, often using animals as characters.
What is a fable?
100
A play on words often achieved through the use of words with different meanings but similar sounds.
What is a pun?
200
A narrative handed down from the past, containing historical elements and usually supernatural elements.
What is a legend?
200
A now archaic term of scholarly commentary derived from the Greek (‘once-only expression’) and applied to a word or phrase of which the only one recorded example has been found, also known as a nonce usage.
What is hapax legomenon?
200
A brief, pithy, and often paradoxical saying.
What is an epigram?
200
A simple story that illustrates a moral or religious lesson.
What is a parable?
200
A statement consisting of two parallel parts in which the second part is structurally reversed.
What is a chiasmus?
300
A story or narrated account.
What is a narrative?
300
The Latin phrase (‘things said in passing’) sometimes used to refer to the table-talk or incidental remarks made by a writer or other person, of the kind recalled in biographies.
What is obiter dicta?
300
A saying or statement on the title page of a work, or used as a heading for a chapter or other section of the work.
What is an epigraph?
300
A concise statement often offering advice.
What is a maxim?
300
Placing two elements side by side to present a comparison or contrast.
What is a juxtaposition?
400
A literary work in which characters, objects, or actions represent abstractions.
What is an allegory?
400
A half-line of verse, either standing as an unfinished line for dramatic or other emphasis or forming half of a complete line divided by a caesura. In the second sense, the hemistich is an important structural unit of the early Germanic alliterative metre.
What is hemistich?
400
a term used to point out a characteristic of a person. They are often compound adjectives ("swift-footed Achilles") that become an almost formulaic part of a name.
What is an epithet?
400
A familiar proverb or wise saying.
What is an adage?
400
An argument attacking an individuals character rather than his or her position on an issue.
What is ad hominem argument?
500
A detail, image, or character type that occurs frequently in literature and myth and is thought to appeal in a universal way to the unconscious and to evoke a response.
What is an archetype?
500
A French term for the literary section of a daily newspaper: originally the lower part of the front page, devoted to drama criticism, but later a separate page or pages.
What is a feuilleton?
500
An inscription on a tombstone or burial place.
What is an epitaph?
500
A sermon, or a moralistic lecture.
What is a homily?
500
A substitution of the name of one object for another closely associated with it.
What is metonymy?
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