World literature Flashcards

(34 cards)

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Outpouring of author’s feelings expressed in musical language

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Lyric poetry

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Three types of poetry

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Lyric
Narrative
Dramatic

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Poetry that tells a story in verse form

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Narrative

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Play in verse form. Lines or dialogues of the characters are also in verse

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Dramatic poetry

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5 types of lyric poetry

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Simple lyric
Sonnet
Haiku
Ode
Elegy
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4 types of narrative poetry

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Metrical tale
Metrical romance
Epic
Ballad

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Meditation on death

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Elegy

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Poem with 3 line stanza and 17 syllables (5-7-5)

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Haiku

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Lofty praise of some person or thing

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Ode

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Lyric poem touching every mood and emotion

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Simple lyric

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A 14-line poem with 3 quatrains and a couplet

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Sonnet

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A long narrative poem about the deeds of a hero with supernatural power

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Epic

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Poem that talks about love story of noble people

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Metrical romance

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A short story in verse usually told in straightforward and realistic manner

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Metrical tale

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A short narrative poem that is meant to be sung with a tragic ending

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Ballad

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Talks about a king 2/3 god and 1/3 man

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Epic of Gilgamesh

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Nationality of gligamesh

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4-line stanza lyric poem about living life to the fullest

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Rubaiyat by Persian Omar Khayyam

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Talks about a maiden who escapes dath by folling a cruel ruler by telling stories

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Arabian Nights

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Beast fables taught by a teacher to the children of birth

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Panchatantra by Indian Vishnu Sarma

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Tells about bhagavad Gita, damayanti and ramayana

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Indian epic poem Mahabharata

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Tells about the Trojan War

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Iliad by Greek Homer

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Talks about Odysseus journey home

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Oddysey by Greek Homer

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Talks about Oedipus who killed his own father and married his own mother

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Oedipus Rex by Greek Sophocles

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Talks about the destiny of Aeneas to found Rome
Rustam and Shuram by Persian Firdausi
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Legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans
Aeneid by French Virgil
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Talks about the deeds of Beowulf to overcome challenges
Beowulf by English
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Contains themes about love, friendship, passion, immortality--14 line
Sonnet by Shakespeare
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Love poems dedicated to a lady-Italian
Sonnet by Italian Francesco Petrarch
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Talks about stories told by pilgrims on jourmey to escape the plague
Canterbury tales by English geoffrey chaucer, metrical tale
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Talks about the stories told by 10 people who are also on journey
Decameron by Giovanni Boccaccio italian metrical tale
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Adventures of a tragicomic hero who sees the world differently
Don Quixote by Spanish Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
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Greek lyric poem that contains themes of longing, friendship and marriage
On the throne of many hues by greek sappho
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A pilot who meets the little prince in the sahara
The Little Prince by French Antoine de Saint-Exupery