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Disciplina: LITERATURA NORTE-AMERICANA Professor: MARIA FRANCISCA TERESA V P FERREIRA Turma: 9001/AA Nota da Prova: 6,0 de 8,0 Nota de Partic.: 2 1a Questão (Ref.: 195669) Pontos: 1,0 / 1,0 In seventeenth-century New England, poetry was acceptable reading for Puritans only if it was religious. However, as a Puritan, Bradstreet viewed all events within the context of God¿s divine plan. Explain this comment. Resposta: That everything that happens with the human being was already wroten by God, so basically was destiny. Gabarito: She found similarities between the domestic details of daily life and the spiritual details of her religious life. Unlike the traditional verse of her day, Bradstreet¿s poems speak of everyday occurrences and personal emotions. 2a Questão (Ref.: 196243) Pontos: 0,5 / 1,0 As Henry James develops, his novels become more psychological and less concerned with external events. In James¿s later works, the most important events are all psychological ¿ usually moments of intense illumination that show characters their previous blindness. Give an example of these characteristics in one of his last works. Resposta: The abassador, when Lambert uncover a romance he discover the unique of his own. Gabarito: In The Ambassadors, the idealistic, aging Lambert Strether uncovers a secret love affair and, in doing so, discovers a new complexity to his inner life. 3a Questão (Ref.: 716393) Pontos: 1,0 / 1,0 By reading one of Jonathan Edwards ´ sermons entitled Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, you can recognize his literary tendency to reform the values of theology with determinism and still showing his------------ Puritan origins Revolutionary origins Romantic origins Modern origins Classic origins 4a Questão (Ref.: 711491) Pontos: 1,0 / 1,0 The gothic inspiration in Poe´s work is expressed by the value given to the self the light side of human nature the happy stories told by the writer the gloomy side of human nature the modernist characteristics found in Poe´s stories 5a Questão (Ref.: 195699) Pontos: 1,0 / 1,0 Many Romantics were drawn to the nonrational side of human nature, such as the emotions, imagination, intuition¿even evil and insanity. They were also fascinated by remote periods of history and exotic places. All these interests came together in the type of writing known as: Epic literature Critical literature Lyric literature Gothic literature Classical Literature Gabarito Comentado. 6a Questão (Ref.: 195694) Pontos: 1,0 / 1,0 During the Age of Reform, an expanding network of roads and canals united different sections of the country. Two new inventions revolutionized transportation, they were: the steamboat and the railroad the steamboat and the lightning rod the electricity and bifocal eyeglasses the battery and conductor the rotator and the railroad 7a Questão (Ref.: 713843) Pontos: 0,0 / 0,5 Moby Dick is considered to be an ambitious novel for the time. That was a documentary of life at sea and a unique metaphor of ---------------in general. desire love life friendship aging 8a Questão (Ref.: 826516) Pontos: 0,0 / 0,5 In Realism,all the literary content is simple and not more important than the characters. The characters usually belong to the ---------------. high society. foreign classes. middle class. upper classes. educated classes. 9a Questão (Ref.: 196245) Pontos: 0,5 / 0,5 When World War I began, Edith Wharton was in the middle of it. She traveled extensively by motorcar, helped untiringly with refugees in Paris during the first World War, and actually only returned once again in her lifetime to the United States to accept the Pulitzer prize for her novel: The Age of Innocence. An American Slave. The Great Gatsby. Virginia. Our Nig. 10a Questão (Ref.: 625075) Pontos: 0,0 / 0,5 ______________________ is one of Wharton's most famous works. City of Glass Ghosts The Altar of the Dead Hucky Finn The age of innocence