GRE Subject Test: Literature in English : Contexts of World Poetry
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Example Question #41 : Contexts Of World Poetry
What form does Autobiography of Red take?
Creative Nonfiction
Memoir
Comedy of Manners
Novel-in-verse
Translation
Novel-in-verse
While Autobiography of Red (1998) is loosely based on the Greek myth of Geryon, and despite its title, it is neither translation nor memoir/creative nonfiction. The work is a fragmentary, lyric novel told in verse.
Example Question #42 : Contexts Of World Poetry
Who is the author of The Labyrinth of Solitude?
Octavio Paz
José Emilio Pacheco
Julio Cortázar
Gabriel García Márquez
Laura Esquivel
Octavio Paz
The Labyrinth of Solitude (1950) is by the poet Octavio Paz.
Julio Cortázar wrote Hopscotch (1963), Gabriel García Márquez wrote Leaf Storm (1955), José Emilio Pacheco wrote Don't Ask Me How the Time Goes by: Poems (1978), and Laura Esquivel wrote Like Water for Chocolate (1989).
Example Question #43 : Contexts Of World Poetry
What country is the author of The Labyrinth of Solitude from?
Panama
Chile
Mexico
Colombia
Argentina
Mexico
Octavio Paz is a Mexican writer who also served as a diplomat for his country.
The Labyrinth of Solitude was published in 1950.
Example Question #43 : Contexts Of World Poetry
Which of the following is not another work by the author of The Labyrinth of Solitude?
Airborn
Renga: A Chain of Poems
The Double Flame
The Dream
Sunstone
The Dream
Octavio Paz wrote Sunstone (1956), The Double Flame (1994), In Light of India (1997), Airborn (1979), and Renga: A Chain of Poems (1972). The Dream (1692) is by the 17th-century Mexican nun Juana Inés de la Cruz.
Example Question #44 : Contexts Of World Poetry
Who is the author of The Striders?
Maxine Hong Kingston
Jhumpa Lahiri
Hanya Yanagihara
Paul Yoon
A. K. Ramanujan
A. K. Ramanujan
The Striders (1966) is a collection of poetry by the writer and translator A. K. Ramanujan.
Paul Yoon wrote Once the Shore (2009), Jhumpa Lahiri wrote The Namesake (2003), Maxine Hong Kingston wrote Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book (1989), and Hanya Yanagihara wrote The People in the Trees (2013)
Example Question #46 : Contexts Of World Poetry
What country is the author of The Striders from?
Indonesia
Turkey
Pakistan
India
Afghanistan
India
A. K. Ramanujan is an Indian writer. He was born in Mysuru in the state of Karnataka, India.
The Striders was published in 1966.
Example Question #45 : Contexts Of World Poetry
Which of the following authors is not from the same country as the author of The Striders?
Amitav Ghosh
Arundhati Roy
Rabindranath Tagore
Salman Rushdie
Marjane Satrapi
Marjane Satrapi
Rabindranath Tagore, Salman Rushdie, Amitav Ghosh, and Arundhati Roy are all Indian writers. Marjane Satrapi is a French-Iranian writer and graphic novelist.
The Striders was published in 1966.
Example Question #46 : Contexts Of World Poetry
Which of the following is another work by the author of Autobiography of Red?
Last Poems
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Red Doc>
Aurora Leigh
Casa Guidi Windows
Red Doc>
Red Doc> (2013) is a 21st-century sequel to Autobiography of Red (1998). The other titles are all by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. Sonnets from the Portuguese was published in 1850, Last Poems was published in 1862, Aurora Leigh was published in 1857, and Casa Guidi Windows was published in 1851.
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