Questões de Concurso sobre Literatura

“This above all: to thine own self be true, And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man.”

Shakespeare, William. "Hamlet", Act I, Scene III. 1603.

In what way does the quote from "Hamlet" relate to leadership?

The Picture of Dorian Gray is a 1891 novel written by Irish author Oscar Wilde. The novel is a representation of the conservative moral values of the 19th century.

Mark Twain was an American novelist, whose most famous works were The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1876) and The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), which give vivid and realistic pictures of life in the U.S. southern states.

Leaves of Grass is a collection of poems by the American poet Walt Whitman. It is considered a landmark in the history of American literature. The author’s major concern in this work was to explore, discuss, and celebrate his own self, his individuality, and his personality.

Regarding English-language Literature history, mark the item that describes the Modernist movement:

Maya Angelou, known in literature for her autobiographical works, is the author of:

Poet Sylvia Plath is known for her deeply personal works regarding themes such as depression, death, love, nature and more. Which item best describes the style of her poems?

Read the paragraphs below.

“What is reading?

Reading is a conscious and unconscious thinking process. The reader applies many strategies to reconstruct the meaning that the author is assumed to have intended. The reader does this by comparing information in the text to his or her background knowledge and prior experience.”

“What is literacy?

Literacy is a set of attitudes and beliefs about the ways of using spoken and written language that are acquired in the course of a person’s socialization into a specific cultural context.”

“It is important to clarify the relationship between reading and literacy, since research has shown that they are not the same thing. In fact, the definitions and uses of literacy vary culturally, and the cultural contexts of literacy are the underpinnings of the acquisition and use of reading and writing.”

(MIKULECKY, 2008) Adapted from: https://docplayer.net/5689737-Teaching-reading-in-a-second-language.html Access on March 20^th, 2023

Concerning teaching literacies approaches, identify the option that best describe a social literacy activity.

Choose the sentences below as true or false:

1.(__) Formal literacy in English occurs when students watch subtitled movies, have fun with online games, subtitled or not, and dialogue with colleagues of other nationalities, for example.

2.(__) The teacher, having teaching objectives defined year by year, in an idea of route formative and complexification of the object of study, will use the organizing framework of concepts to plan, exploring the different axes and objects of knowledge, aiming at qualification and progressiveness of learning objectives and development.

3.(__)Studying languages allows the subject to understand how different cultures are organized, customs and the social daily life of the other, as well as assists in the media interaction in which both the student and teacher are social and historically situated.

The correct sequence is:

Regarding English literature and Charles Dickens’ legacy, how can we categorize his work in accordance to the literary movements?

Match the authors with their notable literary works:

(I) William Shakespeare

(II) Charles Dickens

(III) James Joyce

(IV) Emily Bronte

(V) T. S. Eliot

A) "A Tale of Two Cities"

B) "Dubliners"

C) "The Wasteland"

D) "Romeo and Juliet"

E) "Wuthering Heights"

Choose the correct option that makes the appropriate association.

There are many book genres in the English language, and they are classified in two big categories: fiction and non-fiction. Fiction books are those in which the elements are created by the author and the non-fiction are those that are based in real facts. Look at the subgenres listed below and separate them between ficction and non-fiction.

Thriller − Biography − Academic Texts − Philosophy − Self-help book.

“We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of the moments during which we knew them. And they have changed since then. To pretend that they and we are the same is a useful and convenient social convention which must sometimes be broken. We must also remember that at every meeting we are meeting a stranger.”

T.S. Eliot's play "The Cocktail Party"

Which literary movement is associated with the writing style used in the given citation?

Considering the English Literature movements and their history, Virginia Woolf’s work was written during which one of the periods below?

Looking up the meaning of a word in the dictionary is an example of scanning.

Considering the English Literature movements and their history, Charlotte Brontë’s work was written during which one of the periods below?

Considering the English Literature movements and their history, Jane Austen’s work was written during which one of the periods below?

Which 20th-century British author wrote a dystopian novel featuring the Party and the character Winston Smith, set in a totalitarian society controlled by Big Brother?

Henry James was an American-British novelist who approached the differences between American and European cultures in his works, showing how traditional and sophisticated American culture in the early 20th century was.

Edgar Allan Poe was an American poet best known for his poems and stories full of light and joy, typical of Romanticism.