Packet 4: Bonus 8

Pencil and paper may be helpful. 18th-century poets like Hamzah Fansuri introduced the syair (“SHA-ir”) form to this language. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this language that originated a verse form called the pantun, which some Western poets have borrowed to form the villanelle-like pantoum. Novelists Tan Twan Eng and Tash Aw grew up speaking Chinese, English, and this language.
ANSWER: Malay [or Bahasa Melayu; reject “Indonesian”; reject “Bahasa”]
[10h] Assuming A, B, C, and D represent the first four end rhyme sounds of a many-stanza Malay pantun, give the end rhyme scheme of the first two stanzas of that pantun. You have 10 seconds.
ANSWER: ABAB BCBC
[10e] The Malay-language author of The Garden of Kings, Ar-Raniri, used the term ruba’i to describe his verse in a nod to the interlocking AABA form this Persian poet used to write The Rubaiyat.
ANSWER: Omar Khayyam [or Ghiyāth al-Dīn Abū al-Fatḥ ‘Umar ibn Ibrāhīm Nīshābūrī]
<Editors, World Literature> | D. Prelims 4 - Toronto B + Harvard + Michigan + Minnesota

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Georgia Tech BPenn State001010E
Illinois ANorthwestern B001010E
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Maryland ACornell1001020ME
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Ohio StateGeorgetown1001020ME
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TexasWashU1001020ME
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UC Berkeley ANorth Carolina1001020ME
UCFCambridge001010E
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Virginia TechMaryland B001010E

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Main Site2026-04-17✓2114.76100%48%0%