Architecture terms
The Central part of a church or temple that contains the altar and is often elevated separating the clergy from the nave
Chancel
The Pieta
Michelangelo
Old Man and the Sea
Ernest Hemmingway
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen
Woolly Mammoth, Short Faced Bear, and Megaloceros
Pleistocene
An elaborate, ornamental form of classical architecture characterized by columns and pilasters
Corinthian
Mount Rushmore
Gutzon Borglum
For Whom the Bell tolls
Ernest Hemmingway
Lord Jim
Joseph Conrad
Sauropodia, Allosuarus, and Guanlong
Jurassic
A triangular section of a building's roof between edges of intersecting roof pitches
Gable
Perseus with the head of Medusa
Benvenuto Cellini
A Passage to India
E. M. Forster
Jamaica Inn
Daphne du Maurier
Trilobite, Anomalocaris, and Pikaia
Cambrian
The Central part of a church, often flanked by aisles and extending from the entrance to the chancel
Nave
The Little Mermaid
Edvard Eriksen
Little Dorrit
Charles Dickens
King Rat
James Clavell
Titanoboa, Loxolophus, and Gastornis
Paleocene
A domed structure or building
Rotunda
Marman
Louise Bourgeois
Robinson Crusoe
Daniel Defoe
John Bunyan
Steppe Bison, Columbian Mamoth, and Chendytes
Holocene