Activity of text interpretation, aimed at seventh graders, about Jane Austen. “Author of novels like Pride and Prejudice, reason and feeling and Persuasion he was renowned for his sharp dialogues and for the irony present in his novels”. Are we going to learn more about the life and work of this great English writer? So, read the text carefully and then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!
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Jane Austen is one of the most famous English writers after more than two centuries of her death. Author of novels like Pride and Prejudice
, reason and feeling and Persuasion she was famous for her sharp dialogues and the irony present in her novels. Her language resources had a specific target: eighteenth-century English provincial society.She was born on December 16, 1775, in Hampshire, England. Daughter of the Reverend George Austen and Cassandra Austen, she was the second woman among seven siblings. When she turned eight, she was sent to boarding school – along with her sister Cassandra, her lifelong best friend – to receive a formal education. Her contact with the books comes from access to the family library, which is allowed after returning from boarding school.
As a teenager, Austen wrote comedies, and her first well-finished book was Lady Susan, written in epistolary form, when the author was nineteen. In 1797, Austen had already written two novels, Reason and sensibility (first called Elinor and Marianne) and Pride and Prejudice (originally First Impressions). Offered by the Englishwoman's father to a publisher, the books were rejected. The publication of the titles took place only in 1811 and 1813, respectively, signed with the code name “a lady”.
Jane Austen is also the author of emma, Mansfield Park and Northanger Abbey, novels in which she sought to portray the society of the time and the woman's search for the best marriage, as the only way to ascend socially. Appearances are presented by the characters' dialogues and contradictions, in a text full of irony.
The proximity of her texts to her life leads to an autobiographical reading of Austen's work, and even though she never married, it is believed that Jane had boyfriends. As a young woman, she even accepted a marriage proposal and then ran away.
He died on July 18, 1817, aged 42, a victim of Addison's disease. left the novel unfinished Sanditon.
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Question 1 - The text read is:
( ) a review.
( ) a biography.
( ) a report.
Question 2 - In “Jane Austen is one of the most famous English writers […]”, the author of the text:
( ) presents Jane Austen.
( ) evaluates the work of Jane Austen.
( ) exposes an opinion about Jane Austen.
Question 3 - Identify the characteristics of Jane Austen's writing that, according to the text, established her as an author:
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Question 4 – In the fragment “When turned eight years old, was sent to a boarding school […]”, the underlined term establishes a relationship between the facts:
( ) place.
( ) time.
( ) goal.
Question 5 - In the part “As a teenager, Austen wrote comedies […]”, the verb expresses:
( ) an ephemeral action by Austen in adolescence.
( ) a continuous action by Austen in adolescence.
( ) a hypothetical action of Austen in adolescence.
Question 6 – Point out the book written by Jane Austen which, according to the text, was published in 1811:
( ) Lady Susan.
( ) Reason and sensibility.
( ) Pride and Prejudice.
Question 7 – “Appearances are presented by the characters' dialogues and contradictions […]”. Point out the alternative in which this sentence in the text is converted into the active voice:
( ) “Characters' dialogues and contradictions presented appearances […]”
( ) “Characters' dialogues and contradictions present appearances […]”
( ) “Characters' dialogues and contradictions will present appearances […]”
Question 8 – In “[…] it is believed that Jane had boyfriends.”, the subject of the action of believing:
( ) is hidden.
( ) is non-existent.
( ) is not determined.
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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