Arts & Culture — Set 2: 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 look past the ending, often at what became of the characters, tacked on once the plot is done?epilogueLiterature
Readers who skip the epilogue never find out that the runaway cook opened her own restaurant. -
Which word means fiction of middling length: more room than a short story allows, yet well short of a full-length book?novellaLiterature
Too long for the magazine's fiction page, her novella ran in three weekly parts instead. -
Which word means a stately poem that celebrates its subject, often speaking straight to it?odePoetry
The town commissioned an ode for the bridge's hundredth birthday. -
Which word means a joke told in five rhymed lines (AABBA) to a jaunty, galloping beat?limerickPoetry
Each night the radio host signs off with a limerick, five lines that build to a groan-worthy pun. -
Which word means a showpiece number where an opera's plot pauses so one character can pour out feeling in song?ariaMusic
The baritone's comic aria lists every city he has ever traveled to. -
Which word means the fine colored powder that paints and inks owe their shades to, whether it comes from nature or a lab?pigmentVisual Art
Crayons get their colors from pigments stirred into melted wax. -
Which word means the open core of a big building, where people can gaze up past floor after floor, often to a glass roof?atriumArchitecture & Style
In the shopping mall's atrium, a forty-foot fountain shoots water toward the skylight. -
Which word means a way of squeezing time or making a point on film by cutting rapidly through many brief shots?montageTheater & Film
In ninety seconds of montage, the film's scruffy puppy grows into a gray-muzzled old dog. -
Which word means a song, show or act that never fails to send ordinary audiences home happy, even if reviewers sniff at it?crowd-pleaserReviews & Museums
Year after year, the juggling chef is a crowd-pleaser at the county fair. -
Which word means a flair so sure it seems like magic: profit or success follows every move one makes?Midas touchAllusions & Myth
With the Midas touch of a born salesman, he turned yard-sale junk into profit.
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