Landforms
Schemes
5-Letter Words
Literary Theory & Styles
Fathers of Famous Paintings
100

A drumlin is an example of this type of landform.

What is a hill?

100

ABABBCBC is an example of this used in ballad.

What is a Rhyme Schem?

100

To hit hard.

What is whack?

100

Englishman, William Cobbett, told the story of using a smelly smoked fish to distract hounds from chasing a rabbit. Popularizing this term. Which refers to something that is misleading with the intention to distract from important information.  

What is a Red Herring?

100

Painter of “Starry Night,”

Who is Vincent Vango

200

Flat high ground.

What is a plateau?

200

Returns to first investors from money invested by later investors.

What is a Ponzi Scheme?

200

A blanket.

What is a quilt?

200

Ernest Hemingway developed this style of writing, simple dialogue with little to no added punctuation and verbs. Typically to engage the reader as if they were in the actual conversation.

What is direct dialogue?

200

“Woman with a Parasol, Madame Monet and Her Son,” was painted by this father of impressionism.

Who is Claude Monet?

300

This land formation is caused by a retreating glacier leaving large blocks of ice in the ground creating a depression.

What is a kettle?

300

Analogous is a type of this scheme.

What is a color scheme?


300

General nausea, or insecurity about an action

What is Qualm?

300

Introducing a shocking topic or situation to divert from a more pressing and damaging topic. 

What is deadcatting (Will except the dead cat strategy)?

300

Painter of ”The Scream”

Who is Edward Munch?

400
 A bend in a river.

What is a meander?

400

When someone pays money with the expectation of receiving something of a higher value in return but receives nothing. 

What is an Advance Fee Scheme.

400

Nothing, zero, nada, nil

What is Zilch?

400

Popularized by Alfred Hitchcock, this is an object that is important to the plot of a story and/or it’s characters but in itself is insignificant.

What is a MacGuffin (will accept McGuffin)?

400

Th renaissance painter of “The Birth of Venus”

Who is Sandro Botticelli?

500

A strip of land bordered by water connecting two larger areas of land.

What is an isthmu?

500

Under Nanrenda Modi, schemes like Smart City are examples of this type of scheme

What is a government scheme?

500

A continuous spiral structure.

What is helix?

500

In some of Anton Chekhov’s letters with variation he states that all elements to a story must be necessary; they should not give false promise to their readers and arbitrary elements should be omitted.

What is Chekov’s Gun?

500

This painter paints a blue dog in his paintings. 

Who is George Rodrigue?