Literatura Norte-Americana

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1a Questão (Ref.: 201409589479) Acerto: 1,0 / 1,0
The Puritans were a group of people who were dissatisfied with...
 the Church of England.
God
the political scenario
The Catholic Church
themselves
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The title page of Anne Bradstreet's first book assures readers that she did not shirk her responsibilities as a wife
and mother in order to write poetry. The poems were said to be:
 ¿the fruit of some few hours, curtailed from sleep and other refreshments.¿
" the history of hurricane survivors"
" The formation of alliances by the Native Americans against the settlers"
" a realistic, if biased, account of Native Americans"
" the deep cultural conflict between New England¿s Native American and European inhabitants"
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By the time of the Declaration of Independence, American literary patriots felt sure that the great American
Revolution naturally would find expression in the epic. The concept of epic is:
a long, dramatic descriptive poem in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
a long, dramatic narrative poem in elevated language, celebrating the fears of a legendary hero.
 a long, dramatic narrative poem in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
a long, dramatic narrative poetry in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
a short, dramatic narrative poem in elevated language, celebrating the feats of a legendary hero.
 4a Questão (Ref.: 201409196826) Acerto: 0,0 / 1,0
Some of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson's ideas about independence were not new. According to athe
ideas of an English philosopher theory of ¿natural law,¿ human beings are ¿by nature free, equal and independent¿.
These ideas belonged to:
 Thomas Paine
Adam Smith
 John Locke
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Philip Freneau
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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:
Critical literature
Epic literature
Lyric literature
Classical Literature
 Gothic literature
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Toward the end of the 1700s, bold new ideas began to transform European civilization. In time, many of these ideas
would become part of Romanticism, a movement in art and thought that dominated Europe and the United States
throughout much of the 1800s. Some of the roots of this movement were:
optimism and individualism, aversion to Nature and the power of darkness
 optimism and individualism, kinship with Nature and the power of darkness
optimism and individualism, kinship with reality and the power of darkness
optimism and liberalism, kinship with Nature and the power of darkness
optimism and individualism, kinship with Nature and the power of lightness
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Twain ´s writing clearly contributes to the movement of Realism because he
writes about ancient values
he represents life in an ideal way
paints humans as heroes who overcome anything
 views humans as naturally sinful people capable of good and bad things equally
writes romantic tales
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Huckleberry Finn has inspired countless literary interpretations. Clearly, the novel is a story of death, rebirth, and
initiation. The escaped slave, Jim, becomes a father figure for Huck; in deciding to save Jim, Huck grows morally
beyond the bounds of his slave-owning society. It is Jim¿s adventures that initiate Huck into the:
complexities of human nature and give him no moral courage.
 complexities of human nature and give him moral courage.
facilities of human nature and give him moral courage.
complexities of human nature and give him immoral courage.
complexities of animal nature and give him moral courage.
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- Despite his patrician upbringing, proud family traditions, and hard work, _____________ found himself in poverty
with no college education. At 19 he went to sea. His interest in sailors¿ lives grew naturally out of his own
experiences, and most of his early novels grew out of his voyages. In these we see the young wide, democratic
experience and hatred of tyranny and injustice of:
Edgar Allan Poe
Nathaniel Hawthorne
 Herman Melville
Henry Longfellow
Emily Dickinson
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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
aging
friendship
 life
love
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