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This is the page for daily questions (in English) for Lesson 11. Neoclassicism
(continued): Olmedo, Bello.
Lesson 11A. José Joaquín de Olmedo
11-1. How does the author's personality appear in this work?
11-2. What characteristics of the literary movement the author belongs
to appear in this work?
11-3. What important facts do we know about the author's life?
11-4. How does the author reflect his political and social environment?
11-5. What motivated the author to write this work?
11-6. Compare the Bolívar in Olmedo's work with the Bolívar
in the Jamaica Letter.
11-7. What is the author's style like?
11-8. How does Olmedo resolve the problem presented by the Battle of
Ayacucho?
11-9. What political implications does the appearance of the Inca Huayna
Capac in the poem have?
11-10. Explain the onomatopoeia in the line "El trueno horrendo
que en fragor revienta" ("The horrendous thunder throbs and rumbles").
11-11. How does Spain appear in the poem?
11-12. Explain the meaning of the phrase "Who but the son of Colombia
and Mars!"
11-13. Explain the meaning of the phrase "and in triumphal pomp
sacred Liberty was placed in the Temple of the Sun".
11-14. How does nature appear in this work? What does this have to do
with Neoclassicism?
11-15. Has your opinion of Bolívar changed after having read
this work?
Lesson 11B. Andrés Bello
11-20. How does the author's personality appear in this work?
11-21. What characteristics of the literary movement the author belongs
to appear in this work?
11-22. What important facts do we know about the author's life?
11-23. How does the author reflect his political and social environment?
11-24. What motivated the author to write this work?
11-25. What is the author's style like?
11-26. Why has it been said that Bello was "the first humanist
of independent Latin America?"
11-27. Comment on the encyclopedism of Bello.
11-28. Explain the significance of the debates between Bello and the
Romantics.
11-29. Compare nature in the work of Bello with nature in Columbus'
Letter.
11-30. What message does Bello give the military?
11-31. What opinions does Bello have regarding the city and the countryside?
What does this have to do with Neoclassicism?
11-32. Why does Bello title his work "The Castillan Language in
America" and not "The Spanish Language in America"?
11-33. What dangers does Bello see in the linguistic fragmentation of
Latin America?
11-34. Explain the meaning of the phrase "a language is like a
living body"?