Exercise 1 page 16
The picture of Dorian Grey is a novel.
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea is a science fiction novel.
Gulliver's travels is an ad adventure novel.
Dracula is an epistolary novel.
War and Peace is a historical novel.
Il nome della rosa is a crime novel.
Maus is a graphic novel.
Black cat is a short story by Edgar Allan Poe.
Pellegrinaggio is a war poem by Giuseppe Ungaretti.
Tanto gentil e tanto onesta pare is a sonnet by Dante Alighieri.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is a ballad by Samuel T. Coleridge.
Can't Help Falling in Love is a love song by Elvis Presley.
Man and Superman is a play by George Bernard Shaw.
Amleto is a tragedy by William Shakespeare.
The Importance of Being Earnest is a comedy by Oscar Wilde.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a film based on a novel by the same title.

Exercise 2 page 16
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a comedy written by William Shakespeare.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone is a fantastical novel by J.K. Rowling.
Pinocchio is a novel by Carlo Collodi.
Star Wars is a fantasy and science film.
Ode on a Grecian Urn is a poem by John Keats.

Exercise 3 page 17
A narrator tells stories about one or more characters whose thoughts and actions happen in certain time and in certain places which constitute the setting.

 

Exercise 1 page 23

Taking the title, the reader imagines the poem to be about art; the adjective "one" is more difficult to understand, perhaps, his meaning is one in the sense of being unique, alone with nothing else.

 

Es 3 page 24

I find difficult because there are words and expression that are complicated to completely understand for me. Although, reading carefully I can imagine the general meaning of each sentence and the poem.

 

Es 4 page 24

I felt a sense of loss and i was thoughtful about what the poetess said.

 

Es 5 page 24

I don't feel so much difference. I feel as this is a thought of the writer, she seems to be wanting to give the reader a suggestion for life.

 

Es 6 page 24

The rhyme scheme is ABA and ABAA in last stanza. "gesture" is not a perfect rhyme, however the pronunciation is more or less the same of the previous A lines.

There are five tercets and a quartine.

I think it would be sad and resigned, because of reading the idea of the inevitability of loss.

I imagine she is writing this for someone she lost during his life.

I think yes because she is writing about the losses and how we can't avoid them. It's common to initially feel disheartened after a loss but it is normal.

She is talking about how easy is for an human to lose things.

 

Es 7 page 24

No, because i thought the poem to be about a type of art, whereas the text is about the feelings after a loss.

 

Es 8 page 24

stanza 3

stanza 2

stanza 1

stanza 6

stanza 4

stanza 5

 

Es 9 page 25

stanzas

lines

rhyme scheme

'you'

loss

one

disaster

 

Es 10 page 25

The register is quite informal, there are many common words. Otherwise there are some expressions difficult to understand: shan't, vaster, lost cities.

Yes, for example losing keys or wasting time, those are everyday situations we can easily imagine.

1 enjambment:

II. 2-3: "so many things seem filled with the intent / to be lost that their loss is no disaster";

II. 4-5: “Accept the fluster / of lost door keys, the hour badly spent."

II. 8-9: "places, and names, and where it was you meant/to travel..."

II. 11-12: "And look! my last, or / next-to-last, of three loved houses went."

II. 16-17: "- Even losing you (the joking voice, a gesture /I love) I shan't have lied. It's evident /".

2 assonance:

"The art of losing is hard to master. (1)

places, and names, and where it was you meant" (8)

3 alliteration and consonance:

"so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster." (2-3)

 

Es 11 page 25

a. Repetitions: the art of losing isn't hard to master; lost/losing; disaster.

b. Past tenses: you meant; I lost; loved houses went; I lost; I owned; it wasn't; I shan't have lied.

c. Statements: the art of losing isn't hard to master/ the art of losing's not too hard to master ; none of these will bring disaster.

 

Es 12 page 26

Fluster, loved/ lovely/ I love, I miss.

Loss/lose/losing, something, hour spent, places, names, houses, cities, own, you.

 

Es 13 page 26

The present is the prevailing tense.

There is only a passive form "to be lost" (line 3).

Yes: "Lose something" (line 4), "Accept the fluster" (line 4), "practice" (line 7), "look!" (line 10).

Most sentence are affirmative.

 

Es 14 age 26

In the last stanza there are some sentences in brackets: "the joking voice, a gesture I love" and "Write it!".

There are many sentences about material possessions, then we have numbers to quantificate them: "three houses", "two rivers" and "one art".

 

Es 15 page 26

The speaker wants to tell us losing something it's not a problem, it is human, an action we do involuntary, therefore it makes us smile.

This happens when we lose things, like keys or other material goods, although, when we lose a person or important ownership, we are sad but we need to go on with life. For example, in the text the poetess refers to someone she loved. To arrive to the loved person, she creates a climax, starting with keys and ending with continents and love.

The poem, having many enjambments, has a not slow rhythm. The reader can imagine the poem as a message from the speaker, a suggestion.

Many verbs she uses are in present tense, because she is communicating her present nostalgia for something lost in the past, expressed in past tenses.

 

Es 16 page 26

The poem "One Art" was written in 1976 by Elizabeth Bishop. The poetess, writing about the sense of loss, was referring to the losses in her life which have taught her a lesson, and a very present loss she is facing and learning from: the separation from his partner. The general intention is to teach herself to not be so sad after a loss.

 

Exercise page 27

-        Is the poet upset about her losses?

At start, the speaking voice seems not to be upset, perhaps because she lost little and not important things, however she is upset about her losses that had much value, like a loved person or huge proprieties, she describes them as a tragedy.

-        Why are those losses relevant?

What she loses becomes increasingly more important, she starts from keys and she finishes with a loved person. Even if she had lost many things, the more important (the love) was difficult to pass.