Literature Activity, proposed to high school students, with questions about Symbolism.
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
1) Among the main features of symbolism we can highlight:
I. Subjectivism, individualism and imagination,
II. Aesthetics marked by musicality (poetry is close to music);
III. Spirituality and transcendentality;
IV.Creating a national hero.
The alternative is correct:
a) ( ) I, II and III
b) ( ) I and II
c) ( ) II and IV
d) ( ) II, III and IV
2) The main symbolist artists are:
a) ( ) Alvares de Azevedo, Charles Baudelaire, Eugênio de Castro, Camilo Pessanha, Cruz e Souza, Cruz e Souza.
b) ( ) Charles Baudelaire, Eugênio de Castro, Camilo Pessanha, Cruz e Souza, Cruz e Souza.
c) ( ) Charles Baudelaire, Castro Alves, Camilo Pessanha, Cruz e Souza, Cruz e Souza.
d) ( ) Charles Baudelaire, Eugênio de Castro, Machado de Assis, Cruz e Souza, Cruz e Souza.
3) Check the alternatives that feature symbolist plastic artists:
a) ( ) Paul Gauguin (French painter, sculptor and engraver)
b) ( ) Gustave Moreau (French painter)
c) ( ) Odilon Redon (French painter and graphic artist)
d) ( ) Carlos Schwabe (German painter)
e) ( ) Gustav Klimt (Austrian Symbolist painter)
f) ( ) John Graz (painter, illustrator, decorator, sculptor and graphic artist.)
4) Associate each work with its painter:
THE -  |
( ) Mysterious Athens – Franz Von Stuck |
B -  |
( ) Voices of the night – Gustave Moreau |
Ç -  |
( ) Pelleas and Melisande – Carlos Schwabe |
5) Explain the initial milestone of Symbolisms in Brazil.
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6) Analyze the poem below by the poet Cruz e Sousa:
Dilutions of light, old sorrows
of the souls who died for the fight!
You are the beloved shadows of beauties
today cooler than rough stone.
Incognito grotto murmurs
where the Sea sings the psalms and the rudeness
of obscure religions — unblemished voice
of all titanic greatness.
Pass by, remembering the old sensations,
passions that were once sweet friends,
in the light of eternal glorified suns.
Joys of ages ago! And today and now,
old sorrows that go away
in the west of the shrouded Saudade! …
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About the above sonnet we can say:
I. As for the formal aspect, this poem is a sonnet, as it is distributed in 14 verses arranged in two quartets and two triplets.
II. There is use of alternate rhymes (a b a b) and the use of the assonance construction figure with the repetition of the vowel “a”.
III. The use of words and expressions that accentuate a mystical suggestion: "souls", "shadows", "religions", "shrouded", "eternal".
IV. A tendency towards personification or prosopopeia, it is possible to observe in the following verses. "Incognito grotto murmurs" "where the Sea sings the psalms and the rudeness"
The alternative is correct:
a) ( ) I and II
b) ( ) I, II and III
c) ( ) II and IV
d) ( ) I, II, III, IV
By Rosiane Fernandes Silva- Graduated in Letters
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