Lit Terms
Ancient Lit
Chinese Lit
Japanese Lit
Grammar
100
Sentences with similar grammatical structure.
What is parallelism?
100
Dharma and atman
What is duty and soul?
100
Short sayings expressing a general truth.
What is aphorism?
100
Place where ancient Japanese kept their journals.
What is a pillow box?
100
Tom is a world class wrestler. Because he trains so hard.
What is Tom is a world-class wrestler because he trains so hard?
200
Epic hero, hero's quest, conflict, and divine intervention.
What is elements of an epic?
200
The name of the man who survived the flood in Gilgamesh.
What is Utnapishtim?
200
Form's response in "Form,Shadow, Spirit" could have this hashtag.
What is #YOLO?
200
A short or amusing story about a person or event.
What is anecdote?
200
We went to buy supplies at the store, and went to the bank.
What is no comma?
300
Examples include the Iliad, Odyssey, and Aeneid.
What is literary epics?
300
Reason Gilgamesh goes in search of immortality.
What is the death of Enkidu?
300
"The Analects" focus on knowledge in preparation for this.
What is one's future?
300
A statement that seems contradictory but is actually true.
What is paradox?
300
FANBOYS
What is for, and, nor, but, or, yet, so?
400
Ancient poetry containing an even number of lines with the same number of words per line.
What is shih poems?
400
Ravana's fate upon his death.
What is that he is pure in death?
400
"The Analects" or "Tao Te Ching," which came first?
What is "Tao Te Ch'ing?"
400
Haikus are always about this subject.
What is nature?
400
There going over their to get they're book.
What is They're going over there to get their book.
500
stock words that are used to quickly describe a character.
What is epithets?
500
Meaning of Numskull being "drunk with pride."
What is that he is clever, but has a great ego that is his downfall?
500
This symbol is synonymous with the "Tao Te Ching"?
What is the yin and yang?
500
Earliest Japanese poetry.
What is choka?
500
The new law is going into effect tomorrow. It will effect all of us.
What is effect and affect.
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