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This is the page for daily questions (in English) for Lesson 15. Costumbrismo:
Palma, Hernández, López.
Lesson 15A. Ricardo Palma
15-1. How does the author's personality appear in this work?
15-2. What characteristics of the literary movement the author belongs
to appear in this work?
15-3. What important facts do we know about the author's life?
15-4. How does the author reflect his political and social environment?
15-5. What motivated the author to write this work?
15-6. What is the author's style like?
15-7. Explain what Ricardo Palma "Traditions" are.
15-8. What are Ricardo Palma's "Traditions" based on?
15-9. Who was the "Pericholi", and how did she receive her
name?
15-10. Explain the impact of the War of the Pacific on the life and
work of Palma.
15-11. Explain the significance of the fact that Palma was a mestizo.
15-12. Explain the meaning of the phrase "that is worth as much
as Frair Goméz scorpion".
15-13. When did Costumbrismo begin in America?
15-14. What is the political significance of Costumbrismo in Latin America?
Lesson
15B. José Hernández
15-21. How does the author's personality appear in this work?
15-22. What characteristics of the literary movement the author belongs
to appear in this work?
15-23. What important facts do we know about the author's life?
15-24. How does the author reflect his political and social environment?
15-25. What motivated the author to write this work?
15-26. What is the author's style like?
15-27. What is the language of the poem "Martín Fierro"
like?
15-28. What opinion did Hernández have of Sarmiento?
15-29. What impact did barbed wire and the railroad have on the life
of the gaucho?
15-30. It has been said that in every Argentine there is a gaucho. Comment.
15-31. Do you feel that "Martín Fierro" is an epic
poem?
15-32. What did the "Martín Fierro" have to do with
literacy among the gauchos?
15-33. How did Walter Owen translate the phrase "Va..ca..yendo
gente al baile"? Can you suggest another version?
15-34. Explain the meaning of the phrase "Yo no soy cantor letrao"
15-35. Compare the gaucho in the work of Sarmiento and that of Hernández.
Lesson
15C. Luis Carlos López
15-41. What characteristics of the literary movement the author belongs
to appear in this work?
15-42. What motivated the author to write this work?
15-43 What is the author's style like?
15-44. Describe the barber.
15-45. Describe the mayor.
15-46. What are the "spinster girls" like?
15-47. What does the devil say about the "spinster girls"?
Why?