SPAN 203 FINAL - CULTURE
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Peoma de Versos sencillos
Who: José Martí
Born: Cuba, 1853
Death: 1895 while fighting in war.
Published: 1891
Was a journalist, essayist, and politician.
Known as the leader of the revolutionary movement of the 19th century.
Used literature to communicate political and social messages.
Poem talked about the beauty of Cuba.
Examples:
Y todo, como el diamante,
Ante que luz en carbón
Examples of rima consonante: Yo soy un hombre sincero
De donde crece la palma,
Y antes de morirme quiero
Echar mis versos de alma.
El verso
A line of a poem
La estrofa
A group of verses (stanza)
La rima consonante
A rhyme where the consonants and vowels are equal.
Ex: peca, seca
Used in Versos sencillos by José Martí.
La rima asonante
A rhyme where only the vowels are equal.
Ex: peca, cejas
Used in Versos sencillos by José Martí.
El lenguaje figurado
Metaphors, similes, and personification.
Figurative language.
Used in Versos sencillos by José Martí.
La prosopopeya
An attribute of a person, animal, or thing that doesn't correspond to the real world.
Personification.
La metáfora
A comparison that doesn't use a literal comparison.
Metaphor: implied comparison (implícita).
La hipérbole
An exaggeration.
Hyperbole.
El cuento
Short story.
El argumento
A summary of the main event and important details that tells what the story is all about.
El personaje
Main character.
El punto de vista
The point of view.
El narrador
The narrator.
Los esquemas de rima
Rhyme schemes.
La sinalefa
A fusion of words used in poetry.
Example: first word ends with vowel and next word starts = fused together.
Los tipos de verso
Llanos.
Agudos.
Esdrújulos.
Versos llanos
Verses that end with the stress on the 2nd to last syllable.
Versos agudos
Verses that end with the stress on the last syllable.
Versos esdrújulos
Verses that end with the stress not on the last or 2nd to last syllable.
Verso octasílabo.
A verse of eight syllables that uses different types of verbes and sinalefas to achieve this goal.
El soneto
A poem with fourteen lines that uses the abrazada rhyme.
El verso endecasílabo
A verse that has 11 syllables.
El apóstrofe
The use of a second person to speak directly to a dead person, the speaker, or an inanimate object.
El símil
A direct comparison between two things.
El hipérbaton
Uses a different order than the usual for a sentence for poetic effect.
El Día de los Muertos
Uses flowers to decorate cemeteries.
Cleans cemeteries. (cementerio)
Gives candies in the shape of skeletons (esqueletos) and skulls (calaveras) to kids.
Glaciares
Puntas Arenas is the southernmost city in Chile.
Can visit "Isla Magdalena" to see "pingüinos"
Las máscaras guatemaltecas
Represents animals, devils, saints, and other figures.
It's a tradition in Guatemala from "tiempos precolominos"
Antigua, Guatemala
A religious process about rugs in the streets.
They put sawdust (aserrín) on them to decorate them.
Un plato guatemalteco.
Typical dishes are pepián, a rice dish with tomatoes, chili peppers, chicken, and potato.
Served in a stew (guisado)
Copán, Honduras
A place that celebrates Easter (Pascua) differently. A rug of flowers is put on the streets.
El Día de Garífuna, Honduras
The 12th of April.
The anniversary of the Garífunas and they dance and have music and parades.
Comida salvadoreña
Pupusas is a common dish made from a base of corn flour "la masa de maíz."
The second Sunday of the month of November is the "national pupusa day"
Juayúa, El Salvador
The famous "Iglesia de Christo Negro" is celebrated.
More than 25 years since there have been weekend festivals here.
Franklin Díaz-Chang
A NASA astronaut.
Costa Rica.
Alberto Contador
A bicyclist that won three times in the Tour de France.
Spain.
Augusto Ulderico Cicaré
Helped in developing helicopters (helicóptero)
Argentina.
Patricia Quintana
Famous cook, teacher, and author of a cookbook of Mexican food.
Ferran Adriá Acosta
The best cook in the world. Has a restaurant called "El Bulli" in Spain.
Dolli Irigoyen
Is an Argentinean chef that is in TV. She was the author of a cookbook and has a restaurant in Buenos Aires.