World Literature Quiz 1 Test Questions – Flashcards
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quixotic
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Not sensible about practical matters; idealistic and unrealistic
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Miguel de Cervantes
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invented the word "quixotic"
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rabelaisian
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earthy humor
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Francois Rabelais
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invented the word "rabelaisian"
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orwellian
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frightening and overcontrolled by a government that interferes in nearly every aspect of personal life
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George Orwell
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invented the word "orwellian"
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borgesian
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stories with a lack of clarity for what is really happening in real time vs. a dream; modifies our conception of the past, as it will modify the future; renowned for the rich and fantastical imagery.
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Jorge Luis Borges
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invented the word "borgesian"
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Kafkaesque
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the absurdity we have to deal with living in a world of faceless bureaucracies; marked by a senseless, disorienting, often menacing complexity. *alienation*
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Franz Kafka
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invented the word "kafkaesque" writer of "Metamorphosis"
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Sadism
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Get pleasure from inflicting pain
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Marquis de Sade
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invented the word "sadism"
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Masochism
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abnormal pleasure from being mistreated or dominated
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Sacher Masoch
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invented the word "masochism"
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William Shakespeare
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born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, he is considered by many as the greatest dramatist, playwright, and poet of the English speaking communities.
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Robert Frost
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Four-time Pulitzer Proze winner, whose poems depict life and sceneries of New England, i a native of San Francisco, California.
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Mario Eric Gamalinda
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The Manila born author has won major literary prizes in the Philippines for his poetry and fiction and worked as a journalist, editor and broadcast director for the Philippine Center for Investigative Journalism before moving to the United States writer of "Las Ruinas del Corazon"
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Wystan Hugh Auden
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"Musee Des Beaux Arts" Born in York, England, this Anglo-American poet-activist emigrated in the U.S. in January of 1939 with mentor-friend, Christopher Isherwood.
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Emily Dickison
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"After Great Pain, A Formal Feeling Comes" 1,700 short poems she left behind after her death.
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Li Po
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"The River Merchant's Wife" sometimes going by the name *Li Bai*, this Chinese poet was known as one of the greatest romantic poets of the T'ang Dynasty along with Tu Fu.
