literatura norte amaericana

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a Questão 
	
	
	
	Dickinson¿s 1,775 __________ continue to intrigue critics, who often disagree about them. Some stress her mystical side, some her sensitivity to nature; many note her odd, exotic appeal. Her clean, clear, chiseled poems are some of the most fascinating and challenging in American literature. 
		
	
	plays 
	
	romances 
	
	sonnets 
	
	poems 
	
	poetries 
	
	
	 2a Questão 
	
	
	
	
	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: 
		
	
	Classical Literature 
	
	Critical literature 
	
	Lyric literature 
	
	Epic literature 
	
	Gothic literature 
	
	
	 3a Questão 
	
	
	
	
	Walt Whitman¿s greatness is visible in many of his poems, among them:
		
	
	"Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking¿ and "Woman in the Nineteenth Century" 
	
	¿Crossing Brooklyn Ferry¿ and ¿The Chambered Nautilus¿ 
	
	¿Crossing Brooklyn Ferry¿ and ¿Leaves of Grass" 
	
	¿When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom¿d¿ and ¿Evangeline¿ 
	
	¿Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking¿ and "A Fable for Critics" 
	
	
	 4a Questão 
	
	
	
	
	The Romantics tended to emphasize two aspects of nature¿ _______________. The darker Romantics, such as the Melville of Moby-Dick, stressed nature¿s destructive power. Although Ralph Emerson was sensitive to the power of the untamed American wilderness, he chose to dwell on the beauty of nature. 
		
	
	power and arrangement 
	
	power and construction 
	
	beauty and commitment 
	
	beauty and slavery 
	
	beauty and power 
	
	 
	
		
	
	 5a Questão 
	
	
	
	
	In the 1830s, the influence of Romanticism began to be felt in the United States. One result was ________________, a loosely organized movement that embodied the ideas of thinkers who were active in New England in the 1830s and 1840s. 
		
	
	Rationalism 
	
	Realism 
	
	Humanism 
	
	Enlightenment 
	
	Transcendentalism 
	
	 
	
		
	
	 6a Questão 
	
	
	
	
	Her best poems have no fat; many mock current sentimentality, and some are even heretical. She sometimes shows a terrifying existential awareness. Like Poe, she explores the dark and hidden part of the mind, dramatizing death and the grave. Yet she also celebrated simple objects ¿ a flower, a bee. She is
		
	
	Mercy Otis Warren 
	
	Emily Dickinson 
	
	Hannah Foster 
	
	Judith Sargent Murray 
	
	Susanna Rowson 
	
	
	 7a Questão 
	
	
	
	
	More than any other writer, Walt Whitman invented the myth of democratic America, he daringly turned upside down the general opinion that America was too brash and new to be poetic. He invented a timeless America of the: 
		
	
	free imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of all states.
	
	free imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of only one nation.
	
	free imagination, peopled without pioneering spirits of all nations. 
	
	prohibited imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of all nations. 
	
	free imagination, peopled with pioneering spirits of all nations. 
	
	 
	
		
	
	 8a Questão 
	
	
	
	
	Practical yet idealistic, hard-working and enormously successful, he recorded his early life in his famous Autobiography. He was the first great self-made man in America, a poor democrat born in an aristocratic age that his fine example helped to liberalize. His name is:
		
	
	Richard Saunders
	
	Thomas Jefferson 
	
	Benjamin Franklin 
	
	Thomas Paine 
	
	Noah Webster