Easy Round Quiz Bee

This person is regarded as the greatest haiku poet. This poet was born into a samurai family and later lived a life of a hermit.

 

• Yasunari Kawabata

• Yosa Buson

• Kobayashi Issa

• Matsuo Bashō

In West Africa, what is the term they use to refer the keepers of oral literature who may be a professional storyteller, singer, or entertainer and were skilled at creating and transmitting the many forms of African oral literature?

• Orature

• Griots

• Ashanti

• Dausi

Which lndian Epic is considered as the longest epic ever written with 100, 000 couplets.

• Bhagavad Gita

• Ramayana

• Mahabharata

• Dhammapada

The Thai Folkltale entitled, Makato and the Cowrie Shell is written by?

• Supanee Kanchanathiti

• Shih Ching

• Yukiol Mishima

• Ethel Solilven- Timbol

It is a long narrative poem that talks about the series of quests undertaken by a great hero.

• Legend

• Epic

• Fable

• Tragedy

Considered as a group of beliefs and traditions.

• Tradition

• Bayanihan

• Culture

• Ethics

Literature comes from a latin word "litera" which means ______________.

• letters

• learning

• communication

• symbols

How old is our written literature?

• one hundred years old

• two hundred years old

• three hundred years old

• four hundred years old

It is a long narrative divided into chapters and events that are taken from true to life stories.

• Epic

• Legends

• Fables

• Novels

Rigveda is made up of how many hymns?

• 1,028

• 2,018  

• 1, 082 

• 2, 081