Bonus
Al Mustafa speaks to a crowd while waiting for a ship in a book of aphoristic poems of this type by the Lebanese author Kahlil Gibran (“jib-RAHN”). For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this type of poetry that, unlike verse poetry, forgoes line breaks for blocks of text written in sentences.
ANSWER: prose poetry [or prose poems]
[10e] That book of prose poems by Kahlil Gibran is titled for one of these people. Salman Rushdie’s novel The Satanic Verses takes its name from a story about Muhammad, an Islamic one of these religious figures.
ANSWER: prophets [accept messengers; accept nabi or rasūl]
[10h] This author depicted an invasion of Lebanon in a prose poem set during Hiroshima Day titled Memory for Forgetfulness. This poet repeated the phrase “Write down! I am Arab!” in his poem “Identity Card.”
ANSWER: Mahmoud Darwish
<Editors, World Literature>
| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
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| 2 | 39 | 16.15 | 95% | 54% | 13% |
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| UK (North) | UK | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 12 | 15.00 | 83% | 58% | 8% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 1 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| Northeast | US | Y | 12 | 14.17 | 100% | 42% | 0% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 9 | 16.67 | 100% | 44% | 22% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 1 | 30.00 | 100% | 100% | 100% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |