Prose Quizzes & Trivia

Surreptitious. While surreptitious means secret, it has the additional feeling of "slippery" or "covered up." Amid the Jewish Passover feast of Seder, a grown-up will surreptitiously put a bit of matzoh some place in the house fo

Behaviourism. this school of psychology is based on the premise that scientific psychology should study only observable behaviour. from this premise, the behaviourists eventually come to see their mission as to relate observable behaviour to observab

Meek-brantain is meek compared to the more up-front and audacious mr. harvy, who pressed an ardent, lingering kiss upon nathalies lips (2122), confidently responds to her angry questions (3640), and with an insolent smile (7374) rejects her kiss (787

Prose is might be called "normal language" - it's what we use in a day speech. It consists of sentences and paragraphs, and is what most novels and contemporary are written in. Verse also can be called poetry - it tends to possess a daily r