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LITERATURAS CONTEMPORÂNEAS DE LÍNGUA INGLESA 
 
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A second area of concern in twentieth-century drama is that of the individual´s search for ---------- in an unfriendly
outside world, and the difficulty and fear of communicating with other individuals.
abilities
 identity
ideals
properties
happiness
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Which genre does 'A Streetcar Named Desire' belong to?
poetry
novel
 drama
short story
chronicle
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The stream-of-consciousness novel is said to be the literary expression of a ------------- doctrine in that nothing is
certainly real except one's own existence
historical
industrial
sociological
social
 psychological
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Postmodern works are seen as a response against ______________ thinking and _____________ approaches to
literature.
Modernist/Realistic
Puritan/Realistic
Medieval/Puritan
Modernist/Enlightenment
 Enlightenment/Modernist
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Considering the different periods of literary development, in which one characters are seen as more important than
action and plot?
Romanticism
 Realism
Post-Modernism
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Puritanism
Modernism
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The beat generation was a literary group from the 1950s until the early 1960s. Choose the option that does not describe
a characteristic of the beat generation.
 One of the iconic places of the beat generation was New Jersey.
Allen Ginsberg "Howl" is among the best known examples of beat literature.
The term "Beat generation" was introduced by Holmes in a 1952 essay on his novel "Go".
It is a post-WW2 era movement.
Jack Kerouac explained that "Beat" meant being socially marginalized and exhausted ("beaten down") and
blessed ("beatific").
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Postmodern literature can be associated to the writing that emerged in a post-WW2 era. Which one of the characteristics
below does not fit this movement?
Postmodern literature is seen as a response against Enlightenment.
Postmodern literature is characterized by reliance on narrative techniques such as fragmentation and paradox.
 It focuses on a romantic view of society.
Paranoia is a major themes in postmodern writing.
There can be a presence of an unreliable narrator.
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Vladimir Nabokov¿s novel "Lolita" is one of the most important works and controversial fictions of the 20th-century. From
the options below, which one incorrectly describes the postmodernist characteristics of the novel?
The search for the missing body and carefully depicted details.
The complicacy of subject matter.
 The romance between the protagonists.
Suspicion and denial of traditional values.
Symbolic configuration of the leading character.
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_____ is the author of several books including The house on Mango Street, Caramelo, loose woman, and, most recently,
Have you seen Marie? She is the founder of two organizations that serve writers, the Macondo Foundation (now
administered by the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center). Choose the alternative that correctly fills in the blank
 Sandra Cisneros
Tony Morrison
Jane Austen
Zadie Smith
Virginia Woolf
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Cyberpunk literature features advanced technology and science, such as information technology and cybernetics, coupled
with a degree of breakdown or radical change in the -------------------.
economical order
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political order
education
nature
 social order