Arts & Culture — Set 1: Quick Drills flashcards
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Drills 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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Which word means a sweeping tale that follows a clan down the generations or heroes through their feats; also a drawn-out real-life drama with many twists?sagaLiterature
The band's saga of lineup changes, feuds and reunions spans forty years. -
Which word means a writer's true retelling of chapters from their own life, often zooming in on one era or subject?memoirLiterature
She wrote her memoir of the war years on scraps of hospital paper. -
Which word means the beat-carrying lines poems are written in, not the running sentences of prose; also a song section sung between choruses?versePoetry
Grandpa recites comic verse at every family dinner. -
Which word means how a poem's lines are laid out in feet, such as the iamb, built from stressed and unstressed syllables?meterPoetry
A limerick gallops along in a meter of da-da-DUM, da-da-DUM. -
Which word means the refrain that comes back between a song's verses; also the singers in an opera or musical who voice the group numbers, not the solos?chorusMusic
The musical's chorus of forty villagers fills the stage in Act One. -
Which word means the surface many painters choose: heavy fabric stretched tight across a wooden frame; also the finished picture?canvasVisual Art
The thief cut the canvas from its frame and rolled it up. -
Which word means a park or garden shelter left open to the breeze; also the hall one company or nation builds for itself at a fair?pavilionArchitecture & Style
A small tea pavilion, open on all four sides, overlooks the garden's lily pond. -
Which word means a show's ticket earnings, or the theater booth that takes them in?box officeTheater & Film
Box office for the circus fell by half during the rainy week. -
Which word means liked or accepted by the broad public, not just a small fringe of fans?mainstreamReviews & Museums
Sushi was once exotic in Ohio; now it's mainstream supermarket food. -
Which word means the farewell effort that closes someone's career or something's run?swan songAllusions & Myth
The quarterback's swan song was a playoff win in the snow.
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