CSET Spanish Subtest 2 (Authors and Works?) Exam with 100% Correct Answers 2023

CSET Spanish Subtest 2 (Authors and Works?) exam Who was the most important modernist? Where was he from? - Correct Answer-Ruben Dario, Nicaragua This type of writing Gained popularity in mid-13th Century w/ Alfonso X - Correct Answer-Spanish Prose The last great poet of middle ages. Wrote Coplas a la muerte de su padre. - Correct Answer-Jorge Manrique First to introduce Sonnet into Spanish Literature - Correct Answer-Iñigo López de Mendoza Facts of Juan Ruiz - Correct Answer-1. Castilian Poet 2. 14 Century 3. Writer of (Libro de un Buen Amor) 4. Mester de Clerencia Facts of Alfonso X (The Wise) - Correct Answer-1. Translation of works from Arabic to Latin. 2. Vernacular of Castle 3. Use of Castilian 4. Prolific Author (Writer) of 300 Poems. 5. Gacilian Father of Spanish Prose. King of Castile and Leon. - Correct Answer-Alfonso X (1252- 1284) Mester de clerencia - Correct Answer-Intend for instruction, didacticism and erudition 13 Century. Facts of Cantar de Mio Cid - Correct Answer-1. Real man, battles, conquests, 2. 1140 3. Realism 4. No super natural beings 5. 14 silabas 6. Mester de Juglaria "Segunda carta de relacion" and "Vision de los vencidos" are works from what literary period? - Correct Answer-Colonial literary movement Gabriel Garcia Marquez is part of what literary movement? - Correct Answer-The Boom/ Magical realism Jorge Luis Borges is part of what literary movement? - Correct Answer-The Boom Osvaldo Dragún (Argentina) is part of what literary movement? - Correct Answer-The Boom Chac Mool is about...Is authored by...and is part of what period of literature? - Correct Answer-1. Filiberto - adquiere una piedra de Chac Mool 2. Con el paso del tiempo se transforma en ser vivo 3. El dios ejerce un control hasta dominar a Filiberto. 4. Busca liberar esta esclavitud huyendo a Acapulco, donde encuentra la muerte. Parte del BOOM en LA (Latino America) Similarities between Chac Mool by Fuentes and Casa Tomada by Cortazar - Correct Answer-1. Entidad maligna ominosa 2. Que invade y se apropia del espacio de la casa familiar 3. Personajes apegados que huyen Who exemplified existencialismo? - Correct Answer-1. Pablo Neruda (Walking Around), 2. Miguel De Unamuno (San Miguel bueno, mártir) What is existencialismo? - Correct Answer-1. Humans exist first 2. Human spends lifetime changing their nature. 2. Finding self and the meaning of life Who wrote Chac Mool - Correct Answer-Carlos Fuentes Who exemplified costumbrismo? - Correct Answer-Pardo Bazán Who exemplified culteranismo? - Correct Answer-Luis de Góngora Who exemplified conceptismo? (del Barroco) - Correct Answer-Francisco de Quevedo Ricardo Jaimes Freyre Where was he from? - Correct Answer-Bolivia Ricardo Jaimes Freyre, What style influenced? - Correct Answer-Symbolist-influenced verse the development of Latin American MODERNISM!! Ricardo Jaimes Freyre Who did he collaborate with? - Correct Answer-Rubén Darío on Revista de América. A Julia de Burgos is a work from what literary movement? - Correct AnswerPostmodernism All of these authors exemplify which literary movement?: Julia de Burgos Gabriela Mistral, Alfonsina Storni, Juan Ramón Jiménez, José Martí, Rubén Darío and others - Correct Answer-Modernism (Modernism) This literary movement employs a: - Correct Answer-RICH VERBAL MUSICALITY to express passions, visions, rhythms, and interior harmonies. Describe Francisco Franco (Who did he lead a campaign against? Who did he defeat?) - Correct Answer-1. Against Republican govt in 1934 &divided Spain btwn rightists & leftists. 2. =Spanish civil war 3.Defeated Republicans Who is Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer? - Correct Answer-1. Spanish post-romanticist poet 2. Playwright 3. Columnist: Known for the Rhymes and the Legends Gustavo Adolfo Becquer Year: - Correct Answer- What are Borges' best known works? - Correct Answer-1. Ficciones 2. El Aleph, 1940s= short stories interconnected including dreams, labyrinths, libraries, mirrors, fictional writers, philosophy, and religion. To which genre did Borges contribute/influence? - Correct Answer-1. philosophical literature & fantasy. 2. magical realism and naturalism of the 19th century, Who was Jorge Luis Borges ? - Correct Answer-1. Argentine 2. Short-story writer, essayist, poet and translator, 3. Key figure in Spanish-Lang/Lit Jorge Luis Borges Year: - Correct Answer-() Alonso Quijano is the "real" name of this character... - Correct Answer-Don Quijote. Alonso-old man- crazy after reading many chivalric novels & he becomes Don Quijote, a traveling knight. Latin American literature witnessed the onset of chronicles as a result of which event? - Correct Answer-arrival of the Spaniards in the New World Julio Cortázar (Who was he? When did he live? Where is he from? What movement did he found? Who did he influence? Most notable work?) - Correct Answer-1. Argentine 2. Novelist, short story writer, and essayist. 3. . 4. Founders of LA Boom. 5. Work: Hopscotch Rubén Darío (when was he born? what style did he found? What does his work expose? MOST popular work? - Correct Answer-1. Nicaraguan 2. Founder of Modernism 3. Society vs. Artist 4. Works: EL Rey Burgues (1888)/ Azul - Social problems/materialism Rubén Darío What was the effect of his works on Hispanoamerica? - Correct Answer-1. Style -into modernism. STYLE: REBELLIOUS, INCORPORATES Hispanic traditions, SENSUAL, PLURAL, (sincreticismo), FIGHTING with ITSELF. Sor Juana de la Cruz - Correct Answer-1. 2. Baroque 3. Sor Juana lived during Mexico's: - Colonial period - Mexican literature - Golden Age. Carlos Fuentes wrote... - Correct Answer-Writer of Chac Mool....Mexican writer Benito Pérez Galdós Best known for? Main goal? What did he write? What was reflected in this work?) - Correct Answer-1. Novelista, drama, cronicas 2. Main goal=Find & analyze origins of Spanish revolution Reflected: TIME OF CRISIS IN SPAIN. Garcilaso de la Vega - Correct Answer-1. Italian Renaissance 2. Verse/Poetic 3. Spain Themes Garcia Marquez -What Lit movements? - Correct Answer-Latin American Boom, magic realism Facts of Federico Garcia Lorca - Correct Answer-1. Generación del 27 2. Tema de la muerte 3. Surealist Federico Garcia Lorca, In his works, he always offers a separate world with creations that oscillate between _________ and ___________. - Correct Answer-Reality and Fantasy In Romancero Gitano (Lorca), The first three poems ('Romance de la luna, luna'; 'Preciosa y el aire'; 'Reyerta') talk about the confrontations between the gypsy world and several different mythical forces: in the first poem with death, represented by the moon; the second between desire and the masculine instinct, represented by the wind; in the third poem the confrontation is against the fights and violence of the gypsies. These poems belong to the themes of.... - Correct Answer-Lyricism and women Garcia Lorca chooses to talk about the gypsies because he thinks they represent the Andalusian culture and customs in its ________ form. - Correct Answer-purest "The __________ of Soledad Montoya is the root of the Andalusian people. It's not anguish, because__________ lets you smile, nor is it a blinding pain because it doesn't shed tears; it's an anxiety without an object, a profound love for nothing, a certainty that death is breathing behind the door" - Correct Answer-sorrow (in Romancero Gitano) Andalusia: The Andalusia that Lorca shows through his works is that which can't be seen but felt: the ancient Andalusia, the Andalusia of the ________, the black sorrow, the occult. - Correct Answer-Duende The 'Romancero Gitano' has many different characters, but they are not the typical characters (by this we mean people) but 'abstract' characters or topics like... - Correct Answer-violence, death, love, etc. Romancero Gitano (Gypsy Ballads) is a book of poems by ____________ , published in 1928. It's made up of __ ballads revolving around the topic of the gypsy life style, culture and customs. The ballads reflect: - Correct Answer-1. Federico Garcia Lorca (his most famous book) 2. 18 3. The pains of the gypsy people who live in the margins of society and are constantly persecuted by the authorities, and the fight against them and their repressive laws. What did Federico Garcia Lorca write? - Correct Answer-Dramas: Bodas de sangre, Yerma, La casa de bernarda Alba Poetry: Libro de poemas, Canciones, MOST FAMOUS: Romancero gitano (gypsy) Federico Garcia Lorca was a member of which group? - Correct Answer-Generation of 27 José Marti wrote in what style? - Correct Answer-modernism José Marti wrote in what style? What books did he write (most famous)? - Correct Answer-MOST FAMOUS NOVEL: Amistad Funesta What are some central themes of Gabriela Mistral's poems? - Correct Answer-Nature, betrayal, love, a mother's love, sorrow and recovery, travel, and Latin American Facts of Gabriela Mistral - Correct Answer-A female Chilean poet-diplomat, educator and humanist. What award did Octavio Paz win in 1990? - Correct Answer-Nobel Prize for literature in 1990. What concepts did Octavio Paz focus on? - Correct Answer-Loneliness and existential restlessness. Who was Octavio Paz? - Correct Answer-Was a Mexican poet, essayist, and diplomat who wrote from . Octavio Paz. He can be classified neither as an _________ nor as a ________ symbolist because his way of writing was very unique. The literary movements he belonged to were: - Correct Answer-Neither symbolist nor idealist. Horacio Quiroga - Correct Answer-1. Uruguay 2. Wrote: jungle settings, use supernatural and bizarre to show struggle of man and animal to survive. 3. He owed to Edward Allan Poe 4. Iinfluence in LA w/ magic realism of Gabriel García Márquez and the postmodern surrealism of Julio Cortázar. Miguel de Unamuno (What group did he belong to? - Correct Answer-Author from Gen98. Miguel de Unamuno What was his main message? - Correct Answer-ABANDON ITS TRADITIONS&integrate w/ Europe Describe El libro de Buen Amor. Who wrote it? When? - Correct Answer-Juan Ruiz, the Archpriest of Hita Considered to be one of the masterpieces of Spanish poetry, is a semi-biographical account of romantic adventures by Juan Ruiz, the Archpriest of Hita 1343 Mester de clerecía. The Book of Good Love includes different genres such as: - Correct Answer-narrative, lyric, and didactic The Book of Good Love is famous for its variety of: - Correct Answer-love stories, traditional bucolic poems, fables, lyrical compositions, etc. 2. the cuaderna vía, sixteen syllabic verses, zéjel stanzas, etc us, festive, religious, profane, etc. The Book of Good Love explains how men must be careful about ________ - Correct Answer-Love that can be Good (el buen amor) or Foolish (el loco amor). Good Love is God's=preferred Foolish love causes men to sin. Juan Ruiz gives the reader a lot of examples to explain his theory and avoid Foolish love in name of Good one. Describe Mester de Clerecía y Juglaría () - Correct Answer-1. Clerecía consists of oral poems, poets and clerics. 2. Det rhyme scheme and rhythm. 3.Popular themes include Saints and Christianity. Mester de Juglaria: - Correct Answer-Juglaría is poems written by MINSTRELS. They do not follow a set form, use assonance instead of rhyme and were recited to uneducated audiences. The Book of Good love was written in the medieval genre known as _______ de ________. - Correct Answer-mester de clerecía. When was "paz en la guerra" written? who wrote it? - Correct Answer-Escrito por Muguel de Unamuno This literary genre includes the novels "Amadís de Gaula," Tirante el Blanco y Palmerín de Inglaterra, which are mentioned in Don Quijote. - Correct Answer-libros de caballerías No oyes ladrar los perros (Juan Rulfo) is part of what movement in literature? What are the themes? Plot? Symbols? - Correct Answer-This short story is from the Latin American BOOM. Temas de no oyes ladrar a los perros: - Correct Answer-• La pobreza • El crimen • El conflicto de los padres por los hijos. La Casa de Bernarda Alba (Federico Garcia Lorca) Whats it about - Correct AnswerPurity of children in the eyes of the mother and the pain surrounding the search for love. Popul Vuh - Correct Answer-Narrates creation of world by Gods, creation of men, corn. Pre-Colombian Arrival of Spanish in America =legends start to be written down. Fray Francisco Ximénez saw importance of ________; had remained hidden until 1701 by Quiche Maya community. Translated it to Castilian. - Correct Answer-Popul Vuh