Arts & Culture — Set 2: Practice flashcards
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Fifteen sentence-completion questions on the Set 2 words, set in galleries, theaters and concert halls: four choices, one blank, and why the tempting wrong answer fails.
Practice deck · part of Arts & Culture · written against: 150 words of literature, music, art, architecture, theater and film. Updated 2026-10-10.
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The novel opens with a short ______ in which the grown-up narrator admits that the riverside cinema she is about to describe was torn down long ago.
A) prologue
B) sequel
C) epilogue
D) encoreA) prologueLiterature
A scene-setting part placed before the main story begins is a prologue. Epilogue is tempting because it tells what became of a place, but an epilogue comes after the story ends, and this section opens the novel. -
The poem's opening ______, four lines long and set off from the rest by a blank space, describes an empty train platform at midnight.
A) couplet
B) sonnet
C) limerick
D) stanzaD) stanzaPoetry
A group of lines set off by a space is a stanza. Couplet is tempting, but a couplet is two lines, and this section has four. -
Only forty prints were pulled from the artist's acid-bitten copper plate before its fine lines wore down, so each numbered ______ in the show is rare.
A) watercolor
B) etching
C) fresco
D) collageB) etchingVisual Art
A print taken from lines that acid has bitten into a metal plate is an etching. Watercolor is tempting because both are framed works on paper, but a watercolor is painted by hand, one at a time, not printed from a plate. -
The theater's ______ version of Cinderella keeps stopping so the actors can step out of the story and argue with the audience about how it should end.
A) Gothic
B) postmodern
C) baroque
D) melodramaticB) postmodernArchitecture & Style
Retelling an old tale while playfully drawing attention to its own artifice is postmodern. Melodramatic is tempting because the actors argue, but melodramatic means feelings shown in an exaggerated way, and these interruptions are a playful joke about the show itself. -
Asked to fold the laundry, Casimir clutched his chest, staggered to the sofa and gasped that he would never recover, a wildly ______ performance.
A) Gothic
B) Faustian
C) melodramatic
D) seminalC) melodramaticReviews & Museums
Showing feelings in a wildly exaggerated way is melodramatic. Gothic is tempting because of the deathbed theatrics, but Gothic describes eerie, gloomy settings and fiction, not an overblown reaction to a chore. -
The touring company's sets are gorgeous and sturdy, but their ______ is their weight: each painted wall takes eight stagehands to lift.
A) Trojan horse
B) Achilles' heel
C) swan song
D) Midas touchB) Achilles' heelAllusions & Myth
A little flaw with big consequences, in something otherwise strong, is an Achilles' heel. Trojan horse is tempting because the trouble lies within the sets, but a Trojan horse is a hidden threat brought inside in an innocent-looking form, not a flaw.
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