This Japanese poetic form consists of 3 lines, which have 5 syllables, 7 syllables, and 5 syllables, respectively.
What is a haiku?
100
Writers from this literary movement valued natural beauty, common speech, and powerful emotion.
What is Romanticism?
100
This mysterious sheikh wanders around Cairo and possesses mystical healing powers.
Who is Zaabalawi?
100
This famous sonneteer addressed lines to a dark lady whose "eyes are nothing like the sun" and a fair youth who is fairer than a "summer's day."
Who is William Shakespeare?
100
The protagonist in this work ultimately comes to regret his "most simple and most ordinary" life as selfish and false.
What is "The Death of Ivan Ilyich?"
200
This 14-line poetic form is often used to express love.
What is a sonnet?
200
This American poet lived in isolation and desired her works to be destroyed after her death.
Who is Emily Dickinson?
200
This thin, balding lover in T. S. Eliot's poem lacks the gumption to confess his feelings.
Who is J. Alfred Prufrock?
200
This innovative feminist writer mixes truth and fiction in her work, encouraging readers to sift through her stream of consciousness style to decide for themselves "whether any part of it is worth keeping."
Who is Virginia Woolf?
200
This Renaissance work suggests that leaders should be effective, rather than moral.
What is "The Prince?"
300
This literary genre is more developed than a short story, but less developed than a novel. Hint: Tolstoy's "The Death of Ivan Ilyich" is one example.
What is a novella?
300
This literary and philosophical period is characterized by its valuation of reason, order, and equality.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
Petrarch falls in love on sight with this woman, who has lovely eyes.
Who is Laura?
300
This democratic poet famously declares "I celebrate myself, and sing myself."
Who is Walt Whitman?
300
This activist writer compares the education of women and soldiers, noting that both "acquire manners before morals."
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
Popularized by writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Salman Rushdie, this writing style blends fact with fiction.
What is magic realism?
400
This writer sets his essay amidst both personal and national conflict, portraying his father's death and tense racial relationships in WWII America.
Who is James Baldwin?
400
This senator is the main character in Gabriel Garcia Marquez's "Death Constant Beyond Love."
Who is Onesimo Sanchez?
400
This poet composes, prints, and illustrates poems from the perspectives of both innocence and experience. Examples include "The Lamb" and "The Tyger."
Who is William Blake?
400
This Victorian writer uses her poetry to call attention to the plight of child laborers.
Who is Elizabeth Barrett Browning?
500
This poetic genre enables the poet to speak as someone other than him- or herself. Hint: Tennyson's "Ulysses" is an example.
What is a dramatic monologue?
500
This bohemian poet struggled with alcohol addiction and went to jail for shooting his lover in the arm.
Who is Paul Verlaine?
500
Yu Tsun shoots this unfortunate Sinologist to send a message to the German government in Jorge Luis Borges's "The Garden of Forking Paths."
Who is Stephen Albert?
500
This French poet combines intricate, beautiful verse forms with vivid imagery of corpses and decay.
Who is Charles Baudelaire?
500
This Enlightenment writer highlights man's place in the universe's hierarchy, noting that all of creation are "but parts of one stupendous whole."