FINALS MIX REVIEW Flashcards
is a Japanese poem.
Haiku
● It is developed from the hokku, the opening three lines of a longer poem called
tanka
is known as the greatest master of haiku
Matsuo Bashō
Haikus are commonly written in association with
nature and anything natural.
The Fisherman and the Jinni is a part of the many stories in One Thousand
and One Nights, told by
Scheherazade
It is about a Fisherman who happens to catch a sealed copper jar. Opening it,
it releases a furious jinni, who had been imprisoned and abandoned deep in
the waters, vowed to kill the person who will set him free.
The Fisherman and the Jinni
In the end, the Fisherman is able to bring the jinni back in the copper jar,
sealing it off and warned everyone of the
treacherous jinni.
It is a story inside a story framework.
The Fisherman and the Jinni
In the story, the Jinni, King Yunan, and King Sinbad were all gullible enough
and caused death to others. This leads to them
getting killed or sent into
sorrow.
The Decameron is written by
Giovanni Boccaccio
It involves ____________ and women fleeing Florence during the Black
Plague.
10 young men
They stay at a villa, and to pass time, they took turns of sharing a total of
100 stories
In the third day, _______ is the queen of the day
Neifile
The theme is of the decameron is about
people
who achieved their desires by their own efforts
is the story teller of
the third story.
Dioneo
It is about ________ , a non-Christian girl from Gafsa, turns hermit in wanting to
learn how to serve the Almighty, and is taught by Rustico the monk.
Alibech