World Lit Final Exam Authors/Texts

the Latin alphabet

"One could sum up by saying that the good things that this Carmentis has done are truly infinite, since it is thanks to her that men have been brought out of their ignorant state and become civilized, even if they themselves have not acknowledged this fact."What was it that (according to Lady Reason, at least) Carmentis invented?

"the natural way" or "the method"

Dao can be roughly translated as:

the politicians of this day

In Book XIII of the Analects, Confucius says, "Alas! These puny creatures are not even worth mentioning!" Of whom does he speak?

The poetry of Du Fu

Painted Hawk Moonlight Night Spring Prospect Qiang Village I My Thatched Roof is Ruined by the Autumn Wind I Stand Alone Spending the Night in a Tower by the River Thoughts while Travelling at Night Ballad of the Firewood Vendors Autumn Meditations IV

St. Augustine

St. Augustine and his Confessions

Confucius

Confucius and his Analects

he doesn't identify himself, but speaks as a nameless "I", who addresses words of wisdom

The speaker of the Daodejing identifies himself in the text as __________.

Shamhat

To whom does Enkidu address the rather astonishing blessing below? "For your sake may the wife and mother of seven be abandoned."

Ishtar

To whom does Gilgamesh address this not-terribly-flattering speech? You are a brazier that goes out when it freezes, A flimsy door that keeps out neither wind nor draught, A palace that crushes a warrior, A mouse that gnaws through its housing, Tar that smears its bearer, Waterskin that soaks its bearer, Weak stone that undermines a wall . . .

Chaucer

Wife of Bath's Prologue from The Canterbury Tales

a man of the world, well traveled, and politically connected

what best characterized Chaucer, the man

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own

lecture that Woolf was invited to give at a women's college

A Room of One's Own began as a...

Yiyun Li

A Sheltered Woman

a refutations of Confucius and his followers, and an alternative to the Confucian vision of human morality

According to the Norton introduction, it is clear that the Daodejing was written as, among other things:

Laozi

Daodejing

a flying chariot

Deus ex machina was one of our early literary terms! Hopefully you recall it (and I think the Norton introduction talks about it, as well), so that you can identify what form the deus ex machina in Medea arrives in.

a butterfly

In what is probably the most famous passage in all of Zhuangzi's writings, he dreams that he is ____:

male ; female

Laozi advises in the Daodejing, "Know the ________ But keep to the role of the _________."

Euripides

Medea

Frederick Douglass

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave

gin

Nwamgba bears witness to many changes as the European newcomers make rapid incursions into her homeland. She discovers with disgust that "even the gods had changed," for just as her son "no longer ate anything at all of hers" (1428), the gods too desire offerings of a foreign product. What is it?

Christine De Pizan

The Book of Ladies

Lu Xun

The Diary of a Madman

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Headstrong Historian

Robert Alter

The Hebrew Bible: Genesis creations story and flood story

Wu Cheng'en

The Journey to the West

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Lotos-Eaters Ulysses

Mo Yan

The Old Gun

Ezra Pound

The River Merchant's Wife

the poetry of Li Bo (also known as Li Bai)

The Sun Rises and Sets South of the Walls We Fought Bring in the Wine Question and Answer in the Mountains Summer Day in the Mountains Drinking Alone with the Moon The Hardships of Traveling the Road I Seeing Off Meng Haoran at Yellow Crane Tower, on His Way to Guangling In the Quiet Night Sitting Alone by Jingting Mountain A Song on Visiting Heaven's Crone Mountain in a Dream: On Parting

an aged, coughing monkey

We learn that xing, which translates roughly to "evocative images," is among the primary devices (or techniques) in the poetry of (or at least attributed to) Confucius. Which of the following images does not appear in the poems presented in the Norton?

the loss of a magical plant that would have granted him immortality

What causes Gilgamesh to utter the following lament? For whom, Ur-Shanabi, have my hands been toiling? For whom has my heart's blood been poured out? For myself I have obtained no benefit, I have done a good deed for a reptile!

Nurse

identify the speaker of the following lines, who, as the Norton editors explain, opens the play by declaring a "desire to undo the beginning" (440).This is the strongest safeguard there is: when a wife always sides with her husband. But now, they're at odds, their bond is infected.