Q1 M1 Close Analysis and Critical Interpretation of Literary Texts from the World Flashcards
It has more than 50,000 published works in a wide range
of topics.
Chinese Literature
Who is considered as China’s greatest poet?
Du Fu (712-770)
He was known for his works of
lushi. A lushi has eight lines, each of which has five or seven syllables following a strict
tonal pattern.
Du Fu (712-770)
He is also called Li Po, rivaled Du Fu for the title of China’s greatest poet.
Li Bai (701-762)
A famous drinker, he frequently celebrated
drinking in his poetry, he wrote less formal verse forms.
Li Bai (701-762)
This body works is mostly in ________, except the early writings which were written in
Chinese.
Japanese Literature
Japan’s first literary figure was known for his works of tanka and choka.
Kakinomoto Hitomaro
What is the basic form of Japanese poetry, it has five lines in five-seven-five-
seven-seven syllable pattern?
tanka
Which has alternating lines of five and seven syllables and ends with an extra line of seven syllables?
choka
Having no definite length, it
can have from seven lines to 150
choka
Hitomaro’s works were included in M______
Man’yoshu, the
oldest anthology of Japanese poetry during the Nara Period (710-784)
He was regarded as the supreme haiku poet
Matsuo Basho (1644-1694)
Emerged from the
early Tokugawa period (1603-1770), the haiku is composed of three lines of a?
renga
Basho’s verses appear in his travel accounts
like?
The Narrow Road to the Deep North (1694)
This body of works is produced in India in a variety of vernacular languages like?
- Sanskrit
- Hindi
- Punjabi
- Tamil
- Urdu
It is an Indian epic written in Sanskrit.
Mahabharata
It is the longest poem in history with
about 100,000 couplets.
Mahabharata
Mahabharata is traditionally ascribed to an Indian sage named?
Vyasa
The
Hindus regard the epic as both a text about d____?
dharna (the Hindu moral law) and a history
B_______, the most celebrated of its episodes, gives spiritual guidance
Bhagavadgita
It is shorter than Mahabharata, with some 24,000 couplets.
The Ramayana
The sage V______ was traditionally
regarded as the Ramayana’s author.
Valmiki
The P________ is a collection of Indian animal fables.
Panchatantra
Panchatantra
is a mixture of p_____ and v_____. The stories are attributed to Vishnusharman, a learned
Brahmin.
prose & verse
It is the earliest form of English language
Old English Literature (600-1100)
Old English Literature was spoken by
the A_________, a Germanic tribe living in Britain during the fifth century.
Anglo-Saxons
One significant work
written in Old English is B_______, the longest epic poem in Old English.
Beowulf
Beowulf is known for its use of
k______, which are phrases or compound words used to name persons, places, and things
indirectly.
kennings
It is a blend of Old English and Norman French (the
French dialect spoken by Normans – people from Normandy).
Middle English Literature (1100-1500)
The father of English Literature (GC)
Geoffrey Chaucer
A fine example of literature written in Middle English by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
