QuizBudds: Average Round (College of Arts)

What is the study of words, word formation, and their relationship to other words in the same language?

It is the branch of linguistics that deals with systems of sounds (including or excluding phonetics), within a language or between different languages.

It means a word that is pronounced the same as another word but differs in meaning.

It is a prose fiction narrative involving simple characterization and setting, and uncomplicated plot and conflict, which can be read in one sitting.

He related a series of short stories in his compilation entitled Canterbury Tales.

 He was a Greek slave who started the habit of telling fables, which are short stories with animals as protagonists from which morals can be drawn.

According to character development, this character exhibits noticeable development in the course of the story.

This is the opposition of persons or forces in a story that give rise to the dramatic action in a literary work.

This point of view is used when a narrator tells the story from an all-knowing, all-seeing vantage point.

This point of view is used when a narrator comments on the action of the characters by telling the readers its significance.

It is a Latin word that means “in the midst of things”. It is when the plot starts in the middle of a story.

 It is the basic or smallest unit of meaning/thought.

A poem where the first letter of each line spells a word that fits with the theme of the poem or exposes a deeper meaning.

How many quatrain/s does a Shakespearean sonnet have?

It is what we call the ninth line of a sonnet. It occurs between the octet and sestet in a Petrarchan sonnet and sometimes between the 8th and 9th or between the 12th and 13th lines of a Shakespearean sonnet.