Haiku
How many lines are in a haiku?
Three Lines
How many lines are in a tanka?
Five
Do Haikus and Tankas rhyme?
Traditional Haikus and Tankas don't rhyme.
How many lines total are in all of our haikus and tankas in the presentation, so far, combined?
62 lines.
Who were the three non-famous nonpoets shown in the presentation?
Parin Desai, Liam Friedman, and Ayaan Husain
How many syllables are in a haiku?
17
What are the exact origins of the Tanka?
They were created in the 7th century.
Haikus and Tankas have exactly the same number of ______ as each other (if your answer isn't what we wrote down but I like it, you can take the free 200).
Stanzas
How many slides have you seen so far in this slideshow?
0. This isn't a slideshow, this is a jeapordylabs.
Unknown :D
What are haikus typically about (eg. videogames, school, etc.)
Nature
T or F: A Tanka has 32 syllables.
False
What is the difference in the amount of syllables from haikus and tankas?
14 syllables.
What country did haikus originally originate from? (easy mode)
Japan
Who are Amy Lowell and Carolyn Kizer
Modern Tanka poets
T or F: Haikus focus on a small moment in time.
True
What century did Japanese poets turn to other forms of poetry, resulting in Tankas, for at least a little while, to get lost to history?
Which form of poetry can have punctuation?
Neither
What are the first three lines of a tanka called? (The correct answer is not haiku)
The first three lines are called a Hokku
Name all four poets in the Great Four (If you get the first names, you get an extra 500 points)
The Great Four were Matsuo Basho, Yosa Buson, Kobayashi Issa, and Masaoka Shiki.
Haikus give the reader a sense of ______ and _________.
Illumination and Enlightenment
How many paragraphs are in a tanka?
Zero. Poems don't have paragraphs.
About what was the distance in time between the origin date of tankas and haiku?
Around 1000 years
What did nobles do with tankas? (medium mode)
They competed to see who had the best one.
Which poet wrote the book containing 100 poems made around the year 1010 (300 bonus points for book name)
Murasaki Shikibu who wrote The Tale of Genji