21ST CENTURY LITERATURE WEEK 1

Question 1

a widely used approach to enhance reading comprehension.

Answer 1

reading

Question 2

⤻ process of finding as much information as you can in
order to form as many questions as you can

Answer 2

close reading

Question 3

build texts out of many central components, including
subject, form, and specific word choices.

Answer 3

fiction writers and poets

Question 4

involves examining these components, which allows us
to find in small parts of the text clues to help us
understand the whole.

Answer 4

literary analysis

Question 5

a careful examination and evaluation of a text, image,
or other work or performance.

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critical analysis

Question 6

steps to do the close analysis and critical
interpretation of literary text :

Answer 6

→ step 1 : read the passage, take note as you read
→ step 2 : analyze the passage
→ step 3 : develop a descriptive thesis
→ step 4 : construct as argument about the passage
→ step 5 : develop an outline based on your thesis

Question 7

tolkien reading day is celebrated and it’s organized by
The Tolkien Society.

Answer 7

March 25th

Question 8

promotes the life and works of J.R.R. Tolkien by reading
passages from his books.

Answer 8

March 25th

Question 9

this date was chosen because it coincides with the date
of the downfall of Sauron and the fall of Barad-dûr in
the Lord of the Rings.

Answer 9

March 25th

Question 10

full name of J.R.R. Tolkien

Answer 10

John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Question 11

is the fictional tower from which Sauron rules Mordor. In the books, this happens on March 25, 3019 when the Ring falls into the Cracks of Doom

Answer 11

barad-dûr

Question 12

ー a 2009 Indian Hindi Language coming-of age
comedy-drama film.
ー follows the friendship of three students at an Indian
engineering college and is a satire about the social
pressures under an Indian education system.

Answer 12

3 idiots

Question 13

ー a satirical 2013 romantic comedy novel by Kevin Kwan, highlights and ridicules the lifestyle of upper class Asian families and society.

Answer 13

crazy rich asians

Question 14

author of crazy rick asian

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Kevin Kwan

Question 15

ー a 2019 South Korean black comedy thriller film directed by Bong Joon-ho.
ー follows a poor family who scheme to become employed by a wealthy family and infiltrate their household by posing as unrelated, highly qualified individuals.

Answer 15

parasite

Question 16

author of parasite

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Bong Joon-ho

Question 17

ー depicts a high school boy in Tokyo and a high school
girl in the Japanese countryside who suddenly and
inexplicably begin to swap bodies.

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your name (kimi no na wa)

Question 18

director of kimi no na wa

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Makoto Shinkai

Question 19

mentor of Makoto Shinkai

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Hayao Miyazaki

Question 20

a troubled lead singer of a rock band sets out to
rekindle the relationship he never had with his long-lost
daughter.

Answer 20

doll house

Question 21

7 continents of the world

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asia
africa
europe
north america
south america
antarctica
australia

Question 22

represents beliefs and practices of a group

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culture

Question 23

represents the people who share those beliefs
and practices

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society

Question 24

author of Three Sisters

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Bi Feiyu (Chinese)

Question 25

Author of I do

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Eileen Tabios (Filipino)

Question 26

Author of Serious men

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Manu Joseph (Indian)

Question 27

Author of The changeling

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Kenzaburō Ōe (Japanese)

Question 28

Author of The thing about thugs

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Tabish Khair (Indian)

Question 29

Author of It Is Important To Be Something

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Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (California, USA)

Question 30

Author of Twin Study

Answer 30

Stacey Richter (Arizona, USA)

Question 31

Author of The Bully

Answer 31

Roger Dean Kiser (California, USA)

Question 32

Author of Mango Poem

Answer 32

Regie Cabico (Fil-Am | NYC, USA)

Question 33

Author of This is America

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Donald Glober (African-American |Georgia, USA)

Question 34

Author of A Gentle Hell

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Autumn Christian (California, USA)

Question 35

Author of Machines Like Me

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Ian Russell McEwan (Aldershot, England)

Question 36

Author of Changing My Mind

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Zadie Smith(Sadie Smith) (London, England)

Question 37

Author of Cloud Atlas

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David Stephen Mitchell (Worcestershire, England)

Question 38

Author of The History Boys

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Allan Bennet (Yorkshire, England)

Question 39

Author of Harry Potter Series

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Joanne Kathleen Rowling (England)

Question 40

Literature in the 21st century is the crossroads of literature

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IVO OLIVEIRA AND MITHUN SELVARATNAM

Question 41

● Contemporary writers draw inspiration from the writers who have come before them
○ Many works Ārapple with events, movements, and literature of the past in order to make sense oÿ the present

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ASHLEY WALTON

Question 42

4 themes in literature (IH&MTI)

Answer 42

IDENTITY
HISTORY AND MEMORY
TECHNOLOGY
INTERTEXTUALITY

Question 43

intersections of cultures and more vocal discussions of
women’s rights and LGBT rights.

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Identity

Question 44

explores the notion of multiplicities of truth and
acknowledges that history is filtered through human
perspective and experience.

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History and Memory

Question 45

explore what it means when all of humanity’s
experiences are filtered through technology.

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Technology

Question 46

ー recognize a piece of work as being one among many
throughout history.
ー many writers purposely include acknowledgements,
references or parallels to other works of fiction, recognizing their place in a larger, broader conversation, context and body of work.
ー some intertextual themes go as far as to poke fun at a work’s own lack of originality or the clichés that it
seemingly cannot escape.

Answer 46

Intertextuality

Question 47

⤻ author : Bi Feiyu
⤻ set in rural China in the 1970s
⤻ tracks the lives of three sisters - Yumi, Yuxiu and Yuyan,
the book is divided into three parts, each centering on
one of the three women.
⤻ the narrative begins in 1971 with the birth of the first
boy after 7 girls.

Answer 47

three sisters

Question 48

⤻ author : Eileen R. Tabios
⤻ provides us the perspective of a female worker that
knows how to speak English but is treated as inferior.
⤻ the narrator of the poem is a. female OFW that tells of her life being treated inferior by her employer

Answer 48

i do

Question 49

⤻ author : Manu Joseph
⤻ a 2010 drama fiction novel that follows Ayyan Mani, a
middle-aged Dalit working as an assistant to a Brahmin
astronomer at the Institute of Theory and Research in
Mumbai.
⤻ lives in slum with his wife and a son, furious at his
situation in life, Ayyan develops an outrageous story
that his 10-year-old son is a mathematical genius – a lie
which later gets out of control.

Answer 49

serious men

Question 50

⤻ author : Kenzaburō Ōe
⤻ the first book of a trilogy that was translated into
English by Deborah Boliver Boehm and published in the
United States by Grove Press.
⤻ a filmmaker named Goro Hanawa commits suicide.
Goro had appeared happy before his suicide.
⤻ his best friend, a novelist named Kogito Choko,
discovers the suicide via an audiotape recorded by
Goro; he had sent forty tapes to Kogito. Chikashi
Choko, Goro’s sister and Kogito’s wife, also learns that
Goro died.
⤻ to learn why Goro had killed himself, Kogito listens to
the tapes.
⤻ Scott Esposito of the Los Angeles Times said that :
→ “What he finds is a rambling series of discourses on
everything from the friendship they’ve shared since
they were teens in the 1950s to Goro’s ideas about
art and life, their shared admiration for Rimbaud and
a few secrets from the past.”

Answer 50

the changeling — torikae ko (chenjiringu)

Question 51

⤻ author : Tabish Khair
⤻ an odd confection of a novel, set mostly in what looks
like late-Victorian London; the streets are gaslit.
⤻ the underworld teems with the flotsam of empire:
lascars, Irishmen and so on, the undesirables of many
nations.
⤻ the city is overwhelmed with crime and prostitution and
an influx of immigrants.
⤻ opium dens abound and a serial killer is on the loose.

Answer 51

the thing about thugs

Question 52

⤻ author : Joshua Jennifer Espinoza (transwoman)
⤻ talks about the LGBTQ+ community, they believe that
they have to be something in order to be accepted by
the society.

Answer 52

it is important to be something

Question 53

⤻ author : Roger Dean Kiser
⤻ about how he forgave his bully when he was young and how he helped his bully when he saw him in a
wheelchair.

Answer 53

the bully

Question 54

⤻ author : Stacey Richter
⤻ richter writes with volatile energy, hurtling through her
stories while flitting seamlessly between the unusual
and the mundane.
⤻ she shows the repercussions of bad parenting, the
loneliness of forgotten children, the struggles of the
smallest creatures, and the frailty of age.
⤻ while her observations may sometimes sting, Richter is
never afraid to up her characters’ antes.
⤻ often scathing, sometimes disturbing, and just as
frequently funny, her stories occasionally wend off into
the surreal — they are populated by Neanderthals,
bong-sucking Bat Boys, and a long-suffering woman
raising a clone of herself as a replacement part.
⤻ ultimately, Richter’s flights of fancy are about pain,
human and real and unrelenting, and very, very subtly,
about humanity itself.

Answer 54

twin study

Question 55

⤻ author : Regie Cabico
⤻ the first poem spoke of how the taste of mango served, for Cabico’s family, as a literal taste of home—the connection to a homeland even after migrating to a
new country, and the ways in which tasting a familiar
food can spark memories and comfort.
⤻ mango — represents the philippines.

Answer 55

mango poem

Question 56

⤻ author : Donald Glover
⤻ musical stage name : Childish Gambino
⤻ addresses the wider issue of gun violence in the United States, the high rate of mass shootings in the United States, along with other social issues that are presumed to be aftereffects of historically prevalent systemic racism and discrimination.

Answer 56

this is america

Question 57

⤻ author : Autumn Christian
⤻ comprised of five dark speculative stories of quiet
tension and uncomfortable nostalgia, written for
deformed children and girls that dream of demons.
⤻ They Promised Dreamless Death — a salesman sells
sleep with the promise of a better life, but what dreams
lurk beneath the substrate of consciousness for those
who take it are stranger than they ever imagined.
⤻ Your Demiurge is Dead — while the world adjusts to
the death of God and the new reign of the Triple
Goddess, Charles hunts for an Oklahoma murderer and
is forced to confront his religious ideals when he
encounters a new prophet.
⤻ The Dog That Bit Her — is the story of a neurotic
young woman who gains freedom from her
codependent marriage with the bite of a rabid dog.
⤻ The Singing Grass — the artist and the writer
converge at a meadow haunted by a carnivorous deer
and the burnt monsters that show them the
consequences of an artistic life (semi-autobiography).
⤻ The Bad Baby Meniscus — exclusive to the print
version, a precocious young girl is treated for her
developmental disorder with nanite technology;
however, with a cure comes the death of the self, and
her body begins to reject the treatment.

Answer 57

a gentle hell

Question 58

a salesman sells sleep with the promise of a better life, but what dreams lurk beneath the substrate of consciousness for those who take it are stranger than they ever imagined.

Answer 58

They Promised Dreamless Death

Question 59

while the world adjusts to the death of God and the new reign of the Triple Goddess, Charles hunts for an Oklahoma murderer and is forced to confront his religious ideals when he encounters a new prophet.

Answer 59

Your Demiurge is Dead

Question 60

is the story of a neurotic young woman who gains freedom from her codependent marriage with the bite of a rabid dog.

Answer 60

The Dog That Bit Her

Question 61

the artist and the writer converge at a meadow haunted by a carnivorous deer and the burnt monsters that show them the consequences of an artistic life (semi-autobiography).

Answer 61

The Singing Grass

Question 62

exclusive to the print version, a precocious young girl is treated for her developmental disorder with nanite technology; however, with a cure comes the death of the self, and her body begins to reject the treatment.

Answer 62

The Bad Baby Meniscus

Question 63

⤻ author : Ian McEwan
⤻ the 15th novel by the English author Ian McEwan
⤻ novel is set in the 1980s in an alternative history
timeline in which the UK lost the Falklands War, Alan
Turing is still alive, and the Internet, social media, and
self- driving cars already exist.
⤻ story revolves around an android named Adam and
its/his relationship with its/his owners, Charlie and
Miranda, which involves the formation of a love triangle.

Answer 63

machines like me

Question 64

⤻ author : Zadie Smith
⤻ collection of essays
⤻ split into five sections
→ reading
→ being
→ seeing
→ feeling
→ remembering
⤻ finds Zadie Smith casting an acute eye over material
both personal and cultural.

Answer 64

changing my mind

Question 65

changing my mind 5 sections (RBSFR)

Answer 65

→ reading
→ being
→ seeing
→ feeling
→ remembering

Question 66

⤻ author : David Stephen Mitchell
⤻ combines metafiction, historical fiction, contemporary Fiction and science fiction, with interconnected nested stories that take the reader from the remote South Pacific in the 19th century to the island of Hawai’i in a distant post-apocalyptic future.

Answer 66

cloud atlas

Question 67

⤻ author : Allan Bennet
⤻ opens in Cutlers’ Grammar School, Sheffield, a fictional boys’ grammar school in the north of England.
⤻ set in the mid-late 1980s
⤻ the play follows a group of history pupils preparing for the Oxford and Cambridge entrance examinations
under the guidance of three teachers (Hector, Irwin,
and Lintott) with contrasting styles.

Answer 67

the history boys