Lengua Examen 1 de diciembre

Question 1

La Celestina Author

Answer 1

Fernando de Rojas

Question 2

Cantar de mio Cid author

Answer 2

desconocido/anónimo

Question 3

Don Quixote Date

Answer 3

1605

Question 4

La Celestina Date

Answer 4

1499

Question 5

Cantar de mio Cid Date

Answer 5

Composed sometime between 1140 and 1207

Question 6

Cantar de mio Cid plot summary

Answer 6

• Cid is banished after being falsely accused of stealing
• He participates in Conquest of Valencia against Moorish armies, regaining his honor
• King Alfonso VI gifts his daughters marriage to the infantes (princes) of Carrión
• The new husbands beat their wives and leave them, tied up, to die in the forest
• The daughters remarry to the princes of Navarre and Aragon, uniting Spain

Question 7

Don Quixote plot summary

Answer 7

• Don Quixote is a middle-aged gentleman from the region of La Mancha in central Spain.
• Obsessed with knights he has read about, he puts on some rusty armor and a sword
• He is mentally ill, and hallucinates many chivalrous adventures, including windmills he has mistaken for giants
• He returns home and dies of fever

Question 8

La Celestina plot summary

Answer 8

• Calisto falls in love with Melibea, who does not love him back

-Calisto’s servants tell him get help from Celestina, a matchmaker and prostitute-seller

• She exploits Calisto for money and casts a spell to make Melibea fall in love with him

-Celestina is murdered by Sempronio and Parmeno for not sharing the profit with them

• Calisto falls off a ladder and dies, causing Melibea to commit suicide

Question 9

Cantar de Mio Cid writing

Answer 9

• it has assonance instead of rhyme
• lines vary in length, from 10-20, most 14 syllables
• mester de juglaria (verse form of the minstrels)
• divided into three parts (cantos)

Question 10

La Celestina was the transition….

Answer 10

between Medieval and Renaissance Spanish literature

Question 11

Cantar de Mio Cid is the first…..

Answer 11

first work written in verse in Spanish

Question 12

Coplas por la muerte de su padre (Verses on the death of Don Rodrigo Manrique, his Father) author

Answer 12

Jorge Manrique

Question 13

Spanish writing was

Answer 13

didactic (texts with a moral) and religious

Question 14

Themes of Prose of the 15th century

Answer 14

Humanism, Jorge Manrique, Knights

Question 15

Themes of La Celestina (7)

Answer 15

love, fortune, magic, the presence of death, the vision/beauty of the woman, social and moral values and the passage of time

Question 16

The content of La Celestina

Answer 16

angered the church, as it included many sacrilegious values, such as suicide, prostitutes, magic, sex before marriage etc.

Question 17

La Celestina genre

Answer 17

tragicomedy

Question 18

Poem Analysis (7)

Answer 18

metrics, rhyme, syllables, meaning, significance, stanzas and history

Question 19

Alexandrine

Answer 19

poetic meter with 14 syllables per line

Question 20

the works were often written with ____ lines, making them ______

Answer 20

14 lines, making them sonnets

Question 21

Metric of the poetry

Answer 21

iambic pentameter or alexandrine

Question 22

Verses on the Death of his Father publication date

Answer 22

1476