PG. 15

N.1

A) The Picture of Dorian Gray

B) Never Let Me Go

C) Moby Dick

D) Frankenstein

E) War And Peace

F) To Complete Sherlock Holmes

G) Ghost World

H) Tale Of Mistery & Immagination

I) The Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred Lord Tennyson

J) Death be not proud by John Donne

K) The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

L) Emotions by Iann Dior

M) Pygmalion

N) Romeo And Juliet

O) Lady Windermere's Fan

P) Harry Potter

N.2

1) Is a comedy by William Shakespeare

2) Is a film based on a novel with the same title

3) Is a domande by Carlo Collodi

4) Is a cinematographic serie

5) Is a poem by John Keats

PG.16

1) Narrator

2) Characters

3) Moment

4) Setting

PG.23

N.1

The poem might be about a specific type of art

N.2

a) There are five stanzas of 3 lines each, while the last stanza is made of 4 lines.

b) Yes: “the art of losing isn’t hard to maste" is a kind of refrain. It opens the poem and is repeated in stanzas 2,4 and 6 (here with a minor variation: “the art of losing isn’t too hard to master"). Also the word “disaster", which appears in stanzas 1, 3, 5, 6, could be read as a “counter" – refrain.

N.3

Although there are many everyday words, its interpretation requires careful reading.

N.4

E.g., I felt sadness, a sense of loss, despair, sorrow, frustration, impotence, but also ironical resignation, love and attachment

N.5

I confirm my perception

N.6

a) The rhyme scheme is ABA, and ABAA in the last stanza, whose first line is more an example of consonance than rhyme ( gesture vs faster/master/disaster ), but it more or less reproduces tha same sound asin the previous “A" lines.

b) Tercets and quatrain

c) I think it would be sad because know the all poem there is a sense of grief

d) The speaker addresses a ‘you’ who is not the reader, but the person he/she has lost.

e) The poet reminds the recipient ‘you' that losing things and people is part of life; we become masters at “the art of losing" and learn that life tends to go on as before; although any loss may initially be experienced as disaster.

f) The speaker is talking about how easy it is to lose things and loved ones, due to distraction, loss of memory, lack of time, exile, the end of love, or death

N.7

No, they don’t, because the title suggest something related to art, whereas the text is about various type of loss and the feelings connected to them.

N.8

a) Stanza 3

b) Stanza 2

c) Stanza 1

d) Stanza 6

e) Stanza 4

f) Stanza 5

N.9

1) Stanzas

2) Lines

3) Rhyme scheme

4) “you"

5) Loss

6) One

7) Disaster

N.10

a) The register is fairly informal, as shown by contracted forms (“isn’t”, “wasn’t”) and the direct address to the listener/reader thorough imperative and the pronoun “you". There are some common words such as “places", “names", “houses", and most of the vocabulary belongs to everyday language.

b) Common situations like losing a watch or keys, or wasting time, are easy to imagine. It is more difficult to visualize losing cities, rivers or people.