Vocabulary
flibbertigibbet
silly person
Priyanka Chopra (who featured in movie version of The White Tiger) had won what pageant award before becoming an actress ?
Miss World
Old man and the sea was written by ______________
Ernest Hemingway
_________ is a poetry of exact 4 lines, and commonly rhymes...in contrast, _____________ is a poetry of exact 3 lines, and rarely rhymes.
Quatrain; Haiku
chivvy
tease
This universally renowed writer DECLINED the nobel prize.
Hint: War and peace, Russian Writer
Leo Tolstoy.
_____________ - American memoirist, essayist, poet, and civil rights activist, known for her renowned work "I know why the caged bird sings" lived for over 30 years in Winston Salem, NC.
Maya Angelou
<<Below>> is by ____________
To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,
One clover, and a bee.
And revery.
The revery alone will do,
If bees are few.
Emily Dickinson
redolent
scented, aromatic
Old man and the sea, among many other awards, won the prestigious __________________ award/prize
Nobel prize in literature
The _______ is roughly five times longer than the Bible.
Mahābhārata
{AI also gives this to be the worlds longest Poetry, but I have not read it in that form; Know that Mahabaratha exists in roughly 200+ languages ( some without written script) in India alone.
The worlds most popular poet, as widely claimed.
Jalal Rumi
badinage
banter
______ university is intricately associated with this award/prize
Columbia University; Pulitzer prize
Silent spring, by ____________ brought international focus to DDT and its peril to the environment.
Rachel Carson. While not a classic work of literature, this book was awarded many awards, echoed all the way in Congress (during Kennedy Administration), and later won her posthumously the "presidential medal of freedom".
_______ is often referred to as a language "born" for poetry.
Persian (Farsi)
croupier
gambling casino employee ( one who assists at play tables)
Life of Pi (before becoming a major motion picture) won WHAT prize ?
Man Booker prize
One of the most translated works (clue: THE PROPHET) features an author of lebanese descent who later settled in America. Name him
Khalil Ghibran
Shakespeare's sonnets prominently feature a poetic meter. Name it
Iambic pentameter