Ink & Identity
Threads of the Tale
Lit Lingo
Leftover Lingo & Threads
Potpourri
100

Wrote about happy, sad, and scary "Bells"

Edgar Allan Poe

100

"The Frill" is set in this country - along with Temu. 

China

100

Initial (beginning) consonant or vowel sounds are the same

Alliteration

100

Regular recurrence of sound

Rhythm

100

Putin's not his BFF, but Leo Tolstoy did call this country home. 

Russia

200

Missionary who knew and loved the Chinese people - Female author of "The Frill"

Pearl S. Buck

200
How much Mrs. Lowe paid for her "frilly" dress

Five dollars

200

Using words which sound like what they mean

Onomatopoeia 

200

The tailor in "The Frill" needed money to buy what for his nephew? 

A coffin

200

The country Sennacherib was attacking when he was killed

Judah

300

This melancholy dude had a wife that burned to death when her dress caught on fire - maybe that's why he wrote "The Rainy Day"

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

300

Simon's occupation in "What Men Live By"

Shoemaker

300

Emotion for its own sake - not always based on true facts

Sentimentality

300

In what Russian city did Gerasim, the servant, find it impossible to find work? 

Moscow

300

Isaac Watts put the chapters of this mainly Shepherd-written Bible book into English meter

Psalms

400
This French writer penned "After the Battle" as well as the iconic "Hunchback of Notre Dame" and "Les Miserables." 

Victor Hugo

400

What does Leo Tolstoy say that men live by? 

Love

400
Correspondence of sounds
Rhyme
400

The repetition of final consonant sounds

Consonance

400

Why was Yego Danilych so popular with his master Sharow? 

He told on the other servants. 

500
Wrote about rats, flutes, and missing children. 

Robert Browning

500

According to Henry Drummond, what is the greatest thing in the world? 

Love

500

Soft, pleasing sounds

Euphony

500
Pied in Pied Piper means this

Multicolored

500

English poetry relies much on rhyme and rhythm, but Hebrew poetry relies on what poetic device? 

Parallelism

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