PRESENTAZIONE
27 Gennaio 2019Accenni d’ autunno
27 Gennaio 2019
TERZA PROVA – INGLESE
Data:
Candidato:
- Describe the shift from Neo-classicism to Romanticism focussing on the different literary themes
Answer in no fewer than 80 words
- Describe the literary setting characterizing the Romantic Period pointing out the main differences from Neoclassicism.
Use about 80 words
- The romantic poets believed in the divine spark”. Explain what it means and what is Wordsworths theory about it.
Answer in no fewer than 60 words
- Describe the literary themes characterising the Romantic period in Great Britain.
Answer: about 80 words
- Both Wordsworth and Shelley believed in the great role played by nature.
Give comments.
Answer: about 60 words
- The Romantic poets believed in the divine spark”. Explain what it means and what sort of relations it creates. (about 50 words)
- Which are the elements that make the Albatross get a religious meaning?
- Coleridge ” the Rime of the Ancient Mariner”
Day after day, day after day,
We stuck, nor breath nor motion;
As idle as a painted ship
Upon a painted ocean.
Identify the rhyme scheme, the devises used and explain the effects they provoke.
Rhyme Scheme |
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Devise |
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Effects |
- Dickens and Verga have been often compared. Describe which are the peculiarities they have in common.
Use about 80 words
- The last decade of 18th century, coinciding with the birth of Romanticism, was characterised by severe political, economic and social changes.
Describe them in no fewer than 10 and no more than 15 lines.
- The last decade of 18th century witnesses a shift from neo-classical values to Romantic ones.
What are the main differences from a literary point of view?
Describe them in no fewer than 10 and no more than 15 lines.
- Wordsworth’s “Recollection in tranquillity” represents a sort of poetic solution of the disappointing reality of his time.
Describe it in no fewer than 10 and no more than 15 lines.
- The last decades of the 18th century are characterised by “revolutions” of different kinds deeply affecting both society and literature.
Describe them in no fewer than 10 and no more than 15 lines.
- The Romantic poets believed in the divine spark”. Explain what it means and what sort of relations it creates. (about 40)
- Turner and Constable are two Romantic painters. Describe the elements they have in common with Wordsworth and Coleridge. (about 50 words)
