Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas and O Diário de Ann Frank belong to the following literary genre:
Both works belong to the narrative genre.
Posthumous Memoirs of Brás Cubas, by Machado de Assis, was published in 1881, inaugurating Realism in Brazil. It is a novel, therefore, it belongs to the narrative genre.
Anne Frank's Diary of Ann Frank was published in 1947. The author started writing when she was 13 years old and it is a diary, therefore it also belongs to the narrative genre.
OEDIPUS: O Apollo, O Lord! May your oracle be as propitious as your face is joyful!
PRIEST - Indeed, we can well believe that he is happy; otherwise he would not have girded his forehead with the leaves and berries of the laurel tree.
OEDIPUS: We're going to find out right now, because it's already a long way from us hearing it. Lord my kinsman, son of Menoceus, what answer from the god do you bring us?
CREON: An excellent answer. Certainly there are things that are very difficult to do; but I think they are good, if the results are good.
OEDIPUS What is the oracle? It's just that your words give us neither confidence nor fear.
Oedipus Rex is one of the greatest Greek tragedies, therefore, it belongs to the dramatic genre.
The text tells that Oedipus was the son of King Thebes and that the oracle announced that the son would kill his own father and marry his own mother. To avoid this announcement, the son was sent to a deserted mountain range, but ended up killing his father and marrying his mother.
The tragedy, written by Sophocles, served to illustrate Freud's psychoanalytic theory, the Oedipus Complex.
a) III
Dramatic genre: brings together theatrical texts to be staged, for example, a comedy.
b) II
Narrative genre: tells a story with characters, situated in a time and space, for example, a novel.
c) I
Lyrical genre: includes poetic texts of a sentimental nature revealing the poet's emotions, for example, sonnets.
Lyrical genre: ode, poem and sonnet.
Narrative genre: short story, fable and novel.
Dramatic Genre: Comedy.
Identify the only FALSE alternative.
a) The lyrical genre receives this name, as it refers to the musical instrument, the lyre, which accompanied the declamation of poetry in antiquity.
b) Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy, therefore, it belongs to the lyrical genre.
c) Literary genres are the groups into which literary characteristics are divided according to historical moments.
d) The epic genre probably gave rise to the narrative genre.
This is a description for literary schools, because the literary genres (lyrical, narrative and dramatic) are categories that organize all types of literary texts by the formal, structural, and thematic similarities they own.
The literary schools, or literary movements, are the groups by which literary characteristics are divided according to the historical moments, for example: Troubadourism (12th to 15th centuries), Classicism (16th century), Baroque (16th to 18th centuries), Modernism (20th century).
Os Lusíadas, by Luís Vaz de Camões, and Caramuru, by Santa Rita Durão, are examples of which literary genre?
Os Lusíadas, by Camões, is a classic of Portuguese literature, which was published in 1572. It is a poem of the epic genre, which has the history of Portugal as its grandiose subject.
Caramuru, by Santa Rita Durão, which was published in 1781, is also an epic poem. The grand subject narrated in Caramuru is the discovery of Bahia.
Indicate the alternative that only contains characteristics of the poem, which belongs to the lyrical genre.
a) stanza, meter and rhyme
b) stanza, rhyme and transmission of human characteristics to animals and objects
c) meter, rhyme and chronological sequence of facts
d) stanza, meter and plot
Choose the right alternative regarding literary genres.
a) The classification of literary genres was proposed by the Greek philosopher Aristotle in his classic work called Poetics.
b) Narrative, descriptive, argumentative-argumentative, expository and injunctive are literary genres.
c) There are no differences between textual genres and literary genres.
d) Literary genres and literary movements are the same thing.
Poetics is one of the best known works of the Greek philosopher Aristotle. In it, the philosopher proposes a classification of literary genres based on the format of Greek texts.
As for the remaining alternatives:
b) Narrative, descriptive, argumentative-argumentative, expository and injunctive are not literary genres, but types of texts, from which the various textual genres that exist, such as chronicles, news, dissertations, interviews, revenues.
c) Textual genres and literary genres are different things. Text genres are textual structures that arise from the types of texts (narrative, descriptive, argumentative-argumentative, expository and injunctive), while Literary Genres are categories that organize all types of literary texts by the formal, structural, and thematic similarities they have. own.
d) Literary genres and literary movements are different things. Literary genres are categories that organize all types of literary texts by the formal, structural, and thematic similarities they have. possess, while the Literary Movements are the groups by which literary characteristics are divided according to the moments historical.
i. The lyrical genre focuses on showing the emotions, sensations, feelings and personal impressions of the poet.
II. The epic genre portrayed the grand events of a hero in long poems called epics.
III. Legends, soap operas and autos are texts that belong to the narrative genre.
IV. Auto da Compadecida, by Ariano Suassuna, is an example of a dramatic genre.
Only statement III is wrong, because legends and novels belong to the narrative genre, but the records are theatrical texts that belong to the dramatic genre.
Indicate the alternative that only contains characteristics of texts belonging to the narrative genre.
In addition to the plot, narrator and time, the other elements present in texts belonging to the narrative genre are: characters and space.
As for the other features:
a) subjectivity and many marks of emotion are characteristic of the lyrical genre;
b) texts in prose or verse to be presented to an audience are characteristics of the dramatic genre;
d) theatrical text with a moralistic approach are characteristics of the records, which also belong to the dramatic genre.
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