Questões Letras Inglês para Concursos

It is a first person narrator, as noticed in “The original paraphernalia for the lottery had been lost long ago, and the black box now resting on the stool had been put into use even before Old Man Warner, the oldest man in town, was born”.

Mr. Summers is the narrator who is able to give many details such as these: “ Mr.Summers spoke frequently to the villagers about making a new box, but no one liked to upset even as much tradition as was represented by the black box”.

The story is narrated from the point of view of someone that is part of that community as we can infer from “The lottery was conducted--as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program--by Mr.Summers. who had time and energy to devote to civic activities”.

Shirley Jackson narrates the story through a female perspective as shown in “He was a round-faced, jovial man and he ran the coal business, and people were sorry for him. because he had no children and his wife was a scold”.

The narrator is very critic about the villagers’ attitudes toward the event as described in “There was a story that the present box had been made with some pieces of the box that had preceded it, the one that had been constructed when the first people settled down to make a village here”.

The concept of language argued by the authors is based on grammar-translation and audiolingual methods.

According to the authors, grammar is not important to be taught.

The authors claim for a learning based on reading comprehension strategies.

The authors criticize decontextualized grammar teaching and defend a meaning-making process.

The excerpt emphasizes that, without grammar, there’s no knowledge.

Pygmalion, by Eugene O’Neill, has been considered both a comedy and a tragedy.

The most famous American play is Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for Godot. Beckett himself stated the play's genre in its subtitle: a social play.

Eugene O’Neill, Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams and Edward Albee are among the most important English playwrights. They mostly wrote about the impact of World War on European lives.

Arthur Miller’s definition of tragedy as "the consequence of man's total compulsion to evaluate himself” can be applied to his play Death of a Salesman and to his protagonist Willy Loman.

Arthur Miller’s masterpiece is A Long Day’s Journey into Night, the comedy of a family of manual workers who face the crash of 1929.

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark.

King Lear.

Much Ado about Nothing.

Macbeth.

Othello, the Moor of Venice.

The unhappy conclusion of Much Ado About Nothing is the reason the play is classified as a tragedy. All the characters die in the end while in the Shakespearean comedies the characters tend to marry.

King Lear is considered the most complex and analytical of all Shakespeare's great tragedies. Its plot is, nevertheless, simple: an aging monarch who decides to divide his kingdom amongst his three daughters.

The Tempest is a tragedy about reconciliation and forgiveness. The new generation of princess Miranda and prince Ferdinand take the monstrous creature of the island, Caliban, an anagram for cannibal to be shown in fairs and markets as an attraction in their new kingdom.

Othello presents the most famous monologue of all Shakespearean comedies and the philosopher-prince is one of the bard’s remarkable characters.

Macbeth is a comedy about murder, betrayal, and lusty ambition. Shakespeare enriches this text with transcendent poetic imagery and the play’s resolution, as in all Shakespearean comedies, is marriage.

Genre fiction is imposed upon people by those for whom literature is marketable.

Consumer-readers like genre because of its flexible use of literary interrelationships.

Following the rules of marketability, popular genres combine sameness with the defamiliarization of literary techniques.

Readers of genre fiction like challenges and surprises.

Genre fiction meets the pre-formed expectations of its readers.

may focus on various levels of discourse or narration.

can offer only one narrative perspective.

depends on a chronologically organized sequence of events.

can be narrated in entirely different ways.

is shaped by various narrators.

The novel is constructed of four concentric layers, one within the other. In the outermost layer, Robert Walton, in his letters to his sister, describes his voyage towards the North Pole and his encounter with Victor Frankenstein. In the main, middle layer, Frankenstein tells Walton how he created the monster and abandoned it in disgust, how it avenged itself by murdering all those he loved and how he finally turned and pursued it. In the very center, the monster (or creature) himself describes the development of his mind after the flight from the laboratory and his bitterness when men reject him. And the other layer is composed of the letters Robert Walton’s sister sends him while he is away on his journey.

The novel is about a student of natural philosophy who learns the secret of imparting life to a creature constructed from bones he has collected in charnel-houses. The story is known as a study of the macabre rather than a study of how a man uses science to manipulate his own destiny and is regarded as the first gore gothic novel in literature.

Frankenstein was written during the Romantic era, which was an artistic, literary, musical and intellectual movement that originated in Europe toward the end of the 18th century and in most areas was at its peak in the approximate period from 1800 and 1850. Romanticism was characterized by its emphasis on emotion and individualism as well as glorification of all the past and nature.

The two main female characters in the novel, Elizabeth and Caroline, who are respectively Victor Frankenstein’s wife and mother, shared the same fate in the novel and perished by the hands of Victor’s wretched creature.

The story that originated Frankenstein was initiated in 1816, and first published in 1818. Nevertheless, a revised version came to public in 1831 and became the one best known by the readers. It is in this latest version that Shelley included a bride for the creature.

The poem does not present a fixed set of rhymes because of the influence of previous literary movements.

The idea that the persona is a flower is an example of metaphor.

The first stanza focuses on ideal love while the second revolves around death.

Overall the idea presented in the poem is one of seclusion and forbidden love.

Punctuation in the poem is randomly used in order to emphasize the impossibility of love as something orderly and logical.

simile; metaphor; personification; hyperbole.

hyperbole; simile; personification; irony.

irony; alliteration; simile; metaphor.

metaphor; alliteration; irony; hyperbole.

metaphor; simile; hyperbole; personification.