World literature

Question 0

Outpouring of author’s feelings expressed in musical language

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Lyric poetry

Question 1

Three types of poetry

Answer 1

Lyric
Narrative
Dramatic

Question 2

Poetry that tells a story in verse form

Answer 2

Narrative

Question 3

Play in verse form. Lines or dialogues of the characters are also in verse

Answer 3

Dramatic poetry

Question 4

5 types of lyric poetry

Answer 4

Simple lyric
Sonnet
Haiku
Ode
Elegy

Question 5

4 types of narrative poetry

Answer 5

Metrical tale
Metrical romance
Epic
Ballad

Question 6

Meditation on death

Answer 6

Elegy

Question 7

Poem with 3 line stanza and 17 syllables (5-7-5)

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Haiku

Question 8

Lofty praise of some person or thing

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Ode

Question 9

Lyric poem touching every mood and emotion

Answer 9

Simple lyric

Question 10

A 14-line poem with 3 quatrains and a couplet

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Sonnet

Question 11

A long narrative poem about the deeds of a hero with supernatural power

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Epic

Question 12

Poem that talks about love story of noble people

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Metrical romance

Question 13

A short story in verse usually told in straightforward and realistic manner

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Metrical tale

Question 14

A short narrative poem that is meant to be sung with a tragic ending

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Ballad

Question 15

Talks about a king 2/3 god and 1/3 man

Answer 15

Epic of Gilgamesh

Question 16

Nationality of gligamesh

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Mesopotamian

Question 17

4-line stanza lyric poem about living life to the fullest

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Rubaiyat by Persian Omar Khayyam

Question 18

Talks about a maiden who escapes dath by folling a cruel ruler by telling stories

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Arabian Nights

Question 19

Beast fables taught by a teacher to the children of birth

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Panchatantra by Indian Vishnu Sarma

Question 20

Tells about bhagavad Gita, damayanti and ramayana

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Indian epic poem Mahabharata

Question 21

Tells about the Trojan War

Answer 21

Iliad by Greek Homer

Question 22

Talks about Odysseus journey home

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Oddysey by Greek Homer

Question 23

Talks about Oedipus who killed his own father and married his own mother

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Oedipus Rex by Greek Sophocles

Question 24

Talks about the destiny of Aeneas to found Rome

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Rustam and Shuram by Persian Firdausi

Question 25

Legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans

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Aeneid by French Virgil

Question 26

Talks about the deeds of Beowulf to overcome challenges

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Beowulf by English

Question 27

Contains themes about love, friendship, passion, immortality–14 line

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Sonnet by Shakespeare

Question 28

Love poems dedicated to a lady-Italian

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Sonnet by Italian Francesco Petrarch

Question 29

Talks about stories told by pilgrims on jourmey to escape the plague

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Canterbury tales by English geoffrey chaucer, metrical tale

Question 30

Talks about the stories told by 10 people who are also on journey

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Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio italian metrical tale

Question 31

Adventures of a tragicomic hero who sees the world differently

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Don Quixote by Spanish Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

Question 32

Greek lyric poem that contains themes of longing, friendship and marriage

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On the throne of many hues by greek sappho

Question 33

A pilot who meets the little prince in the sahara

Answer 33

The Little Prince by French Antoine de Saint-Exupery