Literary Terms
In fiction, it's the term for the one who tells the story; first person & third person are 2 types
Narrator
Proverbially, it "is more"
Less
In 2019 Germany announced it would phase out power plants that use this fossil fuel
Coal
In the 1860s Giuseppe Fiorelli became the first serious excavator of this site destroyed more than 1,700 years before
Pompeii
It's a synonym for carousel
Merry-go-round
It's the practical lesson about right & wrong that results from an instructive story like a fable
A moral
You do it as a verb to your eyebrow & have one as a noun as part of your foot
Arch
Airborne wind energy systems use drones or these tethered playthings like the diamond or sled kind
A kite
You know the big heads on this Pacific island? Jo Anne van Tilburg has shown that they have bodies, if you just dig
Easter Island
According to the Flag Code, for 30 days after the death of a president, the flag should be flown this way
At half-staff
From Greek words for "first" & "actor", it's the main character in a story
Protagonist
Below the correct pitch, choirboy
Flat
Proceeds from this Ben & Jerry's flavor inspired by a Vermont band benefit environmental causes
Phish Food
Supporting their origin in Asia, not Italy, a 4,000-year-old bowl of these made of millet was found in China in 2005
Pasta (noodles)
Like the platypus, dinosaurs known as hadrosaurs have this descriptive facial adjective applied to them
Duck-bill
The 6-line "Scottish stanza" is also known by the name of this 18th century poet
(Robbie) Burns
Any minor legally placed in the care of a guardian
A ward
Worried about pollution, in 2019 residents of Toledo, Ohio voted to give personhood status to this lake
Erie
The 1866 discovery & translation of "The Decree of Canopus" confirmed Champollion's work translating this other artifact
The Rosetta Stone
It takes about a week to travel the 5,700-mile route from Moscow to Vladivostok on this railway
The Trans-Siberian
This 5-letter word for a figure of speech is widely used to mean any familiar reference
A trope
Anything deceitfully false, or a type of cover for a pillow
A sham
Preserving outdoor America is the goal of the league named for this author of "The Compleat Angler"
(Izaak) Walton
Hadar in Ethiopia is the site where the 3.2-million-year-old remains of an early hominid given this female name were found
Lucy
During the Revolutionary War, George Washington had many of these confidential assistants including Alexander Hamilton
Aide-de-camp