A Lighter Shade of Grey
True Colors
It's Elementary
Lit Bits
Doing Poetry Justice
100
These darker hues—not sunglasses—are created by adding black to a color
What are shades?
100
This type of color scheme relies on only one hue and its values
These colors don’t flatter each other; they’re just opposite on the color wheel
100
Ahem—the proper term is “hue”
What is color?
100
A short novel
What is a novella?
100
Four feet per line (not a two-step)
What is tetrameter?
200
The lightness or darkness of a color or the worth of an object
What is value?
200
What's true for the parts is not necessarily true for the whole
What are complementary colors?
200
It’s the three-dimensional equivalent of shape
What is form?
200
A small selection from a work of literature
What is an excerpt?
200
four-line stanza
What is a quatrain?
300
These lighter hues can be created by adding white to a color
What are tints?
300
As realism became less dominant, this type of color scheme became more widely used
What is arbitrary?
300
It can be thin, thick, straight, or implied
What is line?
300
The core meaning of a piece of literature
What is the theme?
300
In literature, the other name for an octave
What is an octet?
400
Black and white don’t take sides on the color wheel, but that’s not why they’re called this
What are neutrals?
400
These colors recede in a painting
What are cool colors?
400
It can be visual or tactile
What is texture?
400
French for resolution
What is denouement?
400
Unrhymed iambic pentameter (don’t draw a blank!)
What is blank verse?
500
The brightness or purity of a color
What is intensity?
500
This type of color scheme might use only the primary colors
What is triadic?
500
It is created through repetition and gives a painting a sense of movement
What is rhythm?
500
These understatements are not rare in literature
What are litotes?
500
Jamb – each line runs on and does not contain a complete thought
What is a run-on line (enjambment)?
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