Poetic Forms
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100
This 3-line poem features lines of 5, 7, and 5 syllables.
What is a haiku?
100
This short story by Albert Camus takes place in the North African nation of Algeria.
What is "The Guest?"
100
This feminist author employs distinctively modern stream-of-consciousness style in A Room of One's Own.
Who is Virginia Woolf?
100
This schoolteacher resents his assignment to deliver an Arab prisoner into police custody.
Who is Daru?
100
This poet wrote "The World Is Too Much With Us" and "Lines Composed A Few Miles above Tintern Abbey"
Who is William Wordsworth?
200
Poets often adopt this rhymed, 14-line form when writing love poetry.
What is a sonnet?
200
What is the name of the old chief whose dignity impresses the young narrator in Doris Lessing's short story?
What is Mshlanga?
200
This Mexican poet writes about the complicated and sometimes nightmarish qualities of modern cities.
Who is Octavio Paz?
200
This large-nosed doctor falls in love with a woman piece by piece in Salman Rushdie's short story "The Perforated Sheet."
Who is Aadam Aziz?
200
This medieval Chinese poet abandoned a life of public service to pursue a humble country life.
Who is Tao Qian?
300
This term is often used to describe the sensory depictions expressed in lyric poetry.
What is imagery?
300
This African poet personifies and celebrates his home continent in the poem "Black Woman."
Who is Leopold Sedar Senghor.
300
This poem by T. S. Eliot features a timid would-be lover who can't work up the guts to confess his love.
What is "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock?"
300
This fictional female author fails to achieve the same success as her equally talented play-writing brother in Woolf's A Room of One's Own.
Who is Judith Shakespeare?
300
This modern Irish poet frequently incorporates mythology into his poetry.
Who is William Butler Yeats?
400
Poets like Walt Whitman pioneered this poetic form which features un-rhymed lines of varied lengths
What is free verse?
400
This Nigerian author composed "Chike's School Days."
Who is Chinua Achebe?
400
This Chilean poet speaks out against the violence and corruption of the Spanish Civil War in his poem "I'm Explaining a Few Things."
Who is Pablo Neruda?
400
Dr. Yu Tsun shoots this innocent Sinologist to send a message to the German government.
Who is Dr. Stephen Albert?
400
This Native American author grew up in Laguna Pueblo, New Mexico.
Who is Leslie Marmon Silko?
500
Emily Dickinson frequently employs this rhyme scheme, which pairs words whose sounds roughly resemble one another but don't perfectly rhyme.
What are slant rhymes?
500
Poet Leopold Sedar Senghor served as the first president of this African nation when it gained independence in 1960.
What is Senegal?
500
This Argentinian author composes a complicated short story featuring a Chinese protagonist working as a German spy in WWI.
Who is Jorge Luis Borges?
500
Black servants and chiefs alike confer this title--which means "chieftainess"--on the narrator in Lessing's short story.
What is "Nkosikaas?"
500
This modern German poet composed "Archaic Torso of Apollo."
Who is Rainer Maria Rilke?
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