Estos ejercicios te ayudarán a consolidar el vocabulario literario en inglés de nivel C2, trabajando con metáforas, arcaísmos y los registros formales propios de la gran literatura anglosajona. Pon a prueba tu comprensión de las herramientas estilísticas que dan vida a las obras de Shakespeare y Keats.
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Exercice 1 — Reconocer el vocabulario literario en contexto
Elige la opción que mejor completa cada fragmento literario respetando el registro formal y el vocabulario propio de la literatura anglosajona clásica.
- In Shakespeare's tragedies, the protagonist's fatal flaw is known as his ___.
- When Keats writes 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' he employs a rhetorical device called ___.
- The archaic English word '___ ' meaning 'you' (singular, informal) was commonly used by Shakespeare in his plays.
- A figure of speech in which an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed is called ___.
Correction
- In Shakespeare's tragedies, the protagonist's fatal flaw is known as his hamartia.
- When Keats writes 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty,' he employs a rhetorical device called chiasmus.
- The archaic English word 'thou' meaning 'you' (singular, informal) was commonly used by Shakespeare in his plays.
- A figure of speech in which an absent or imaginary person is directly addressed is called apostrophe.
Exercice 2 — Asociar términos literarios con sus definiciones
Relaciona cada término literario con la definición que le corresponde según los conceptos trabajados en el curso sobre la literatura anglosajona clásica.
- Pathetic fallacy
- Enjambment
- Blazon
- Conceit
Correction
- Pathetic fallacy refers to the literary device by which nature or inanimate objects are described as reflecting or responding to the emotional state of a character.
- Enjambment is the continuation of a sentence or clause across a line break in poetry, without a pause or punctuation at the end of the line.
- A blazon is a poetic catalogue that describes and praises the physical attributes of a beloved figure, typically used in Renaissance sonnets and courtly literature.
- A conceit is an elaborate and extended metaphor that draws a surprising or intellectually complex comparison between two very different things, characteristic of metaphysical poetry.
Exercice 3 — Completar fragmentos con vocabulario literario
Completa cada fragmento con el término literario o arcaísmo adecuado, tal como se emplearía en la literatura anglosajona de nivel C2.
- The repeated use of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines is a device known as ___, frequently found in the Psalms and in Keats's odes.
- In Elizabethan English, the possessive form of 'thou' is ___, as in the phrase '___ crown is not eternal' spoken by a usurper king.
- When a text uses a part to represent the whole, as in 'all hands on deck' referring to sailors, the device employed is called ___.
- The deliberate use of an older or outdated word form to evoke a historical or elevated register, such as 'wherefore' or 'hath,' is referred to as ___ in literary studies.
Correction
- The repeated use of the same word or phrase at the beginning of successive lines is a device known as anaphora, frequently found in the Psalms and in Keats's odes.
- In Elizabethan English, the possessive form of 'thou' is thy, as in the phrase 'thy crown is not eternal' spoken by a usurper king.
- When a text uses a part to represent the whole, as in 'all hands on deck' referring to sailors, the device employed is called synecdoche.
- The deliberate use of an older or outdated word form to evoke a historical or elevated register, such as 'wherefore' or 'hath,' is referred to as archaism in literary studies.
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