A double; a person who has the same name as another
What is a doppelganger?
100
A subject or topic of discourse or of artistic representation
What is theme?
100
A conscious state of mind or predominant emotion in a piece of work; from the heart
What is mood?
100
Keen intelligence that invokes humor and pleasure
What is wit?
100
Walking thru the halls of your old elementary school
What is nostalgia?
200
The people reached by a book, film, or radio or television program
What is audience?
200
Having the characteristics of a style of architecture developed in northern France; characterized by the use of desolate or remote settings and macabre, mysterious incidents
What is gothic?
200
Expressing sorrow often for something now past
What is elegiac?
200
Repetition of a word/phrase in succession in a piece of work
What is anaphora?
200
Ex: This is the beginning of the end.
What is a paradox?
300
A person or thing (in fiction) that appears or is introduced suddenly and unexpectedly to provide a solution to an apparently insoluble difficulty
What is a deus ex machina?
300
A novel dealing with one person’s formative years or spiritual education
What is bildungsroman?
300
Of, relating to, or characterized by insult or abuse
What is invective?
300
A word or expression used in a figurative sense; a common or overused word or phrase
What is trope?
300
Ex: We all must die some time.
What is aphorism?
400
Things (such as movies or works of art) that are of low quality and that many people find amusing and enjoyable
What is kitsch?
400
A figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole, the whole for a part
What is synecdoche?
400
The process of releasing suppressed emotions; emotional therapy
What is catharsis?
400
A type of logical fallacy where the proposition to be proved is assumed implicitly