Reading Check 5

Observe this poem. Which is the correct category for this text?

• Avant-Garde

• Spanish Golden Age

• Latin American Boom

• Expressionism

Which was the movement developed by Tristan Tzara, that attacked traditions and ended up becoming surrealism?

• Dadaism

• Futurism

• Expressionism

• Stridentism

If a poem or a literary text incorporates symbols from a variety of global cultures, what concept does this refer to?

• Being cosmopolitan

• Being existencialist

• Being modernist

• Being neoclassical

Swans, princesses, and lakes were the main symbols of this Modernismo author.

• Rubén Darío

• Amado Nervo

• José Juan Tablada

• Juan Rulfo

What is the reason for the many styles found in Modernismo?

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  Every poet has his own individuality and denies any school.

• Mythology is different in every culture.

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  There was an invocation to the muse.

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  The narrators can be classified in many types.

Love, death and the loss of his wife, inspired the works of this author.

• Amado Nervo

• Rubén Darío

• José Juan Tablada

• Gustavo Adolfo Infante

This poet experimented with poetic forms and figures, and was a precursor of avant-garde.

• José Juan Tablada

• Rubén Darío

• Amado Nervo

• Miguel F. Martínez

Read the fragment. Which technique does the narrator use?

What is a home? It means how they form? A city is built of bricks, a home is built of emotions. I am home. Here at the midpoint, the center of the earth, in the bull's horseshoe, beneath the volcano. (Fragment from Ulysses by James Joyce)

• Interior monologue

• Automatic-writing

• Expressionsm

• Avant-garde

Sarah sets a timer for ten minutes and writes non-stop during this period. She doesn’t pause, letting her thoughts flow onto the paper, even if they seem nonsensical, as she practices:

• Automatic-writing.

• Dadaism.

• Inner monologue.

• Third person narration.

In this avant-garde movement, art arises from the emotional and spiritual experience of reality.

• Expressionism

• Futurism

• Dadaism

• Ultraist