BOOKS AND AUTHORS

What is the Book of Song?

oldest collection of Chinese poetry

Who is Chou Shun Jen?

Father of Modern Chinese Short Story

What are T’ang Poets?

Chinese poets who write about spring, autumn, and nature

Sei Shonagon

The Pillow Book

Yoshida Kenko

Essays on Idleness

Lady Murasaki

Tale of Genji

What is Tale of Heike?

most famous early Japanese novel

What is the story of Atsumori?

a story about a boy killed by a priest

In the Grove

Ryunsuke Akatagawa

What is the plot of In the Grove?

6 different stories about the death of a husband and wife

List the four types of Japanese Drama

1. Noh - wearing masks

2. Kabuki - drama about ordinary life accompanied by orchestra

3. Jorori - used of puppets

4. Kyogen - a Jaoab

Who is Matsuo Basho?

The greatest Japanese haiku poet

The Narrow Road to the North

Matsuo Basho

Who is Yasunari Kawabata?

Japanese novelist who won Nobel Prize in 1968

Works: Snow Country and Thousand Cranes

Yasunari Kawabata

Who is Junichiro Tanizaki?

Japanese erotic novelist with ironic wit which is inspired by Edgar Allan Poe

Diary of a Mad Old Man

Junichiro Tanizaki

Who is Yosa Buson?

second popular Haiku poet after Matsuo Basho

What is Song of Lawino?

a poem about the clashing ideas of African and Western ideals

Okot P’bitek

The Song of Lawino

Who is David Drop?

proponent of Negritude movement

Wole Sayinka

Telephone Conversation

Telephone Conversation is all about?

A conversation between a landlady and the speaker who is black. It talks about racism and prejudices.

Chinua Achebe

Thing Fall Apart

Nadine Gordimer is known for?

Her works explores major themes of exile and alienation.

The Conservationist

Nadine Gordimer

Who is Bessie Head?

She portrayed the struggles and hardships of life in post-colonial Africa and the injustices and oppression of people.

What is Barbara Kimenye known for?

12 children stories called “moses”

What is Vedas?

set of hymns and is considered as the most sacred literature

Rigveda

oldest Veda with 1028 hymns

What is the theme of “Without Seeing the Dawn”?

It tells of the grim experiences of war during the Japanese Occupation.

Without Seeing the Dawn

Stevan Javallena

May Day Eve

Nick Joaquin

What is the message of “May Day Eve”?

The complexities of regret and love

Rosales Saga, Po-on, and My Executioner are written by:

F. Sionil Jose

Dekada ’70, Bata, Bata…, Pa’no Ka Ginawa? are written by:

Lualhati Bautista

What is the focus of F. Sionil Jose’s works?

Social justice and Filipino experience

“Ang Aking Buhay” , “Ang Lupang Tinubuan” , “El Pensamiento (The Thinking)” are written by:

JoMaPa

What is the oldest existing newspaper in the Philippines

The Manila Times

Vyasa

He is the compiler of the Vedas

Ramayana

A popular Indian epic in Sanskrit written by Valmiki

Urdu

The official language in Pakistan

Sanskrit

A sacred language--the language spoken by the gods and goddesses.

What is the theme of “Shakuntala”?

love and romance, nature and beauty, duty and dharma

Deus ex machina

divine intervention

What is the theme of the poem: Taj Mahal

It is about the mausoleum in North India built by the Mogul emperor Shah Jahan for his wife Mumtaz-i-Mahal.

Who wrote Taj Mahal?

Sahir Ludhiani

Gitanjali means..

Songs of Offerings

Gitanjali is attributed to…

Rabindranath Tagore

Upanishads

A collection of sacred Hindu texts that contain the core teachings of Hinduism

The Little Clay Art is also known as….

Mrichchakatikam

Dhampanada

Best-known books of the Pali Buddhist canon which contains 423 stanzas arranged in 26 chapters.

Ragas

A special set of melody in Indian music that is said to touch the brain

Who is Dhanpat Rai Srivastava?

He pioneered adapting Indian themes to Western literary styles.

Kalidasa

The Indian William Shakespeare.

Who is Rabindranath Tagore?

a Great Sage who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1913.

Kamala Markandaya

She delved into the struggles of contemporary Indians with conflicting Eastern and Western values because she married an Englishman.

Who wrote: The God of Small Things?

Arundhati Roy

Who is Vir Singh?

A Sikh writer and theologian?

Who is Anita Desai?

known as India’s premier imagist writer

Jacques Derrida is known as…

The most important figure in deconstruction.

Who wrote the following: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening ” and “Fire and Ice”

Robert Frost

What is theme of “The Road Not Taken”?

Indecisions

What is the theme of Robert Frosts, "Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening"?

duty takes precedence over beauty and pleasure

What is the theme of “Fire and Ice”?

Boundaries and relationships

What is theme of “Nothing Gold Can Stay?

Fleeting nature of beauty and youth

Who is the author of Ecclesiastical History of the English People?

The Venerable Bede

Who is the Father of English Literature?

Geoffrey Chaucer

Who is the Father of Essays?

Michael Montaigne

What is considered to have been the supreme achievement of the English Renaissance?

King James Bible

Gutenberg Bible

It was intended for the Catholics in Germany who could read Latin

Who wrote the “Pilgrims’ Progress”?

John Bunyan

Who is ‘The Father of Science Fiction”?

HG Wells

William Butler Yeats

He was an Irish poet, dramatist and mystic.

Who is John Donne?

He is one of the most known metaphysical poets.

Who wrote An Essay on Criticism?

Alexander Pope

Who is the second-most quoted author in The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations?

Alexander Pope

Who said: "to err is human; to forgive, divine"?

Alexander Pope

Who is the national poet of Scotland?

Robert Burns

The Flea is all about…

A poem that uses the extended metaphor of a flea biting two lovers to argue for physical intimacy.

A Valediction is about…

The nature of enduring love and the connection between two souls, even when physically apart.

The Canonization is about….

It presents love as a sacred and transformative force, worthy of reverence.

Holy Sonnet 14 is all about…

A passionate plea for spiritual renewal and divine intervention.

A Hymn to God the Father is all about….

Donne reflects on his spiritual struggles and seeks God’s forgiveness.