Answer some questions about José Hernández’s Argentine epic poem Martín Fierro, for 10 points each.
[10m] Martín Fierro consists of multiple payadas, rural examples of these types of poems which are typically set to music. Banjo Paterson’s “Waltzing Matilda” is a “bush” type of one of these poems.
ANSWER: ballads [accept Bush ballad; accept folk songs; prompt on songs]
[10e] Unlike the “gauchesque” poetry of before, Hernández structured Martín Fierro with this many rhyming lines per stanza. An Italian sonnet consists of an octet succeeded by this many lines that comprises a sestet.
ANSWER: six
[10h] This writer praised José Hernández’s storytelling of Martín Fierro in the essay “Derivas de la pesada.” This Chilean author also wrote the novels The Savage Detectives and 2666.
ANSWER: Roberto Bolaño [or Roberto Bolaño Ávalos]
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