SIMULAZIONE III PROVA 

Oltre ad alcuni testi sotto riportati si possono consultare gli indicatori e la griglia di valutazione (punteggi in centesimi e conversione in quindicesimi secondo la formula di conversione del programma CONCHIGLIA del CEDE) usati dal consiglio di classe della 5 sez. B (a.s. 1999-00).

            Disciplina:            LATINO

L’atteggiamento di Lucrezio nei confronti del disordine esistenziale degli uomini, tra angosciosa partecipazione  e serena superiorità.

            Disciplina:      FISICA

Che cosa si intende per circuitazione del campo elettrico? Quanto vale nel caso elettrostatico?

Disciplina:            INGLESE

The Romantic Revival produced some radical thinking about poetic language. The famous  manifesto of Wordsworth in his preface to Lyrical Ballads [….] was a direct refutation of Gray’s view that poetry and common speech could never be the same. The Romantic poets, including Wordsworth himself, did not always keep the colloquial semplicity which they prescribed. Yet the poetry written in the first 30 years of the 19^th century is far removed from that of the previous 100 years, despite the fluctuation of critical opinion about the English language over the earlier period. More vivid, familiar words take the place of artificial circumlocution; archaisms, suitable for the rediscovered medieval interest, bring the unexpected element which prevents the colloquial from being banal. Syntax is less tortuous and makes fewer concessions to the demands of rhyme and metre, as a more flexible prosody follows the sense rather than constraining it.

From R. Chapman,

The Language of English Literature

What is the change advocated by Wordsworth in his Preface?

What are the language features the critic recognizes in Romantic poetry?

What is the content of Wordswoth’s Preface to Lyrical Ballads? (max 5 lines)

Disciplina:            STORIA

Con quali motivazioni giolittiani, cattolici e socialisti si oppongono all’intervento nella 1° guerra mondiale?

Disciplina:            INGLESE

Poetry is indeed something divine. It is at once the centre and circumference of knowledge; it is that which comprehends all science, and that to which all science must be referred. It is at the same time the root and blossom of all other systems of thought;   [……….]

Poetry is not like reasoning, a power to be exerted according to the determination of will. A man cannot say, “I will compose poetry.” The greatest poet even cannot say it; for the mind in creation is a fading coal, which some invisible influence, like an inconstant wind, awakens to transitory brightness; the power arises from within, like the colour of a flower which fades and changes as it is developed , and the conscious portions of our natures are unprophetic either of its approach or its departure.

   From P:B: Shelley

A Defence of Poetry

1)      How is poetry related to knowledge?

2)      What distinguishes poetry from reasoning?

3) Compare Shelley’s and Wordsworth’s ideas on poetry. (max 5 lines)          

Disciplina:            FILOSOFIA

Riconduci al complesso del pensiero di Schopenhauer la seguente citazione di Shakespeare che ricorre nel I libro del Mondo come volontà e rappresentazione:

“We are such stuff

As dreams are made of, and our little life

Is rounded with a sleep”

(Shakespeare, La tempesta, atto 3, scena 1)

Disciplina:            STORIA DELL’ARTE

Dal Congresso di Vienna all’utilizzo della macchina fotografica come mezzo espressivo il concetto ricorrente è il realismo. Analizzare sinteticamente il percorso.

Disciplina:            SCIENZE

Spettri di emissione e di assorbimento.  

Traccia un quadro della Germania negli anni della crisi postbellica sotto il profilo politico, economico e sociale.

Nell’ "Institutio oratoria" Quintiliano si propone di formare, insieme al perfetto oratore, il cittadino e l’uomo moralmente esemplare.

La resistenza e le leggi di Ohm.

I have decided in this essay to use the phrase fin de siècle, which clearly points to the preoccupations of the last years of the nineteenth century, without being limited to a single decade, and which can cover such particular manifestations as "aestheticism" and "decadence". From the early nineties onward, fin de siècle was something of a catch-phrase; there is a characteristic instance in Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray, published in 1891:

"Fin de siècle", murmured Lord Henry.

"Fin du globe", answered his hostess.

"I wish it were fin du globe" said Dorian with a sigh. "Life is a great disappointment".

(ch. XV)

[….] The phrase fin de siècle was applied to a wide range of trivial behaviour, provided it was sufficiently perverse or paradoxical or shocking. Yet insofar as fin the siècle refers to a serious and consistent cultural attitude, it had two essential characteristics: the conviction that all established forms of intellectual and moral and social certainty were vanishing, and that the new situation required new attitudes in life and art; and the related belief that art and morality were separate realms, and that the former must be regarded as wholly autonomous ; hence the aesthetic doctrine or "art for art’s sake".

from B. Bergonzi in A. Pollard (ed),

Sphere History of Literature- The Victorians

1. Why has the critic decided to use fin the siècle?

2. What are the two essential characteristics of the new cultural attitude?

3.  What did the writers and the artists of this period react against? (Max 5 lines).

Nella storia del pensiero filosofico si sono sviluppate due teorie fondamentali del tempo: quella della linearità e quella della circolarità. Indica, motivando la scelta, quali filosofi dell'800 e del 900 a te noti inseriresti nell'una o nell'altra teoria.

Due tele Le déjeuner sur l’herbe e Olympia di E. Manet (1832-1883), esposte nel 1863 al Salon des Refusés, furono subito al centro di un vero e proprio scandalo. La provocazione si poneva sia sul piano formale sia su quello contenutistico. Esponi la carica innovativa di tali opere e come queste riuscissero a coniugare temi e iconografia del patrimonio pittorico classico con uno stile del tutto nuovo.

I pianeti del sistema solare: analogie e differenze

From: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY by Oscar Wilde

You have a wonderfully beautiful face, Mr. Gray. Don’t frown. You have. And Beauty is a form of Genius- is higher, indeed, than Genius, as it needs no explanation. It is of the great facts of the world, like sunlight, or spring-time, or the reflection in dark waters of that silver shell we call the moon. It cannot be questioned. It has its divine right of sovereignty. It makes princes of those who have it. You smile? Ah! When you have lost it you won’t smile…… People say sometimes that Beauty is only superficial as Thought is. To me Beauty is the wonder of wonders. It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible…… Yes, Mr. Gray, the gods have been good to you. But what the gods give they quickly take away. You have only a few years in which to live really, perfectly and fully. When your youth goes, your beauty will go with it, and then you will suddenly discover that there are no triumphs left for you, or have to content yourself with those mean triumphs that the memory of your past will make more bitter than defeats.

1. Underline the expressions and the similes with which Beauty is defined, and list the advantages given by Beauty.

2. What makes Beauty something impossible to capture and keep? The writer’s idea is that Beauty is associated with…….

3. Define the Aesthetic Movement. (max. 5lines)

La legge dell'evoluzione come principio unitario della realtà nel pensiero di Herbert Spencer

Il coefficiente di autoinduzione (o induttanza) di un circuito ed il fenomeno dell'autoinduzione elettromagnetica..

La struttura interna della terra

  From The Waste Land
            By T.S. Eliot

 1)      What aspects of Spring are singled out as being “cruel” and how does the description of Winter       contradict traditional views?  (max.4 lines)  

 2)      Using your own words describe the city and its inhabitants. (max.4 lines)

 3)      What does the term “Modernism” usually indicate?  (max.5 lines)

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