The Spanish language and literature examination for the college entrance exams (PAU) in Catalonia has included a textual content by Javier Marías, who died on the age of 70 on September 11, 2022, questions on rhetorical figures, an essay on the significance of the survival of the books and questions on ‘The Foundation’, by Antonio Buero Vallejo.
The check with which this yr’s Selectividad has begun has requested in choice A of the examination questions round a fraction of ‘Tomás Nevinson’, by Javier Marías, in addition to an train of substitution of phrases reminiscent of ‘voracious’ and ‘inaudible ‘.
The college students have additionally been requested questions on ‘The Foundation’, by Antonio Buero Vallejo, in addition to an essay on whether or not they share Tomás Nevinson’s viewpoint on the human situation.
Option B of the examination requested questions of studying comprehension round ‘El infinito en un junco’, by Irene Vallejo, and included one on rhetorical figures through which ‘pun’, ‘hyperbaton’, ‘oxymoron’ and ‘personification’ appeared, as nicely of questions in regards to the novel ‘Nothing’, by Laforet.
The essay proposed to the scholars who’ve chosen this selection was about writing an expository textual content in regards to the significance of the survival of books.
In the frequent a part of linguistic reflection, questions on grammatical sequences and subordinate clauses have been requested.
Text by Marías, “a bit summary”
At the top of the examination, college students have mentioned that Marías’ textual content was “a bit summary and mentioned many various issues” they usually have discovered it troublesome, they usually have additionally thought-about that the grammatical half on minimal pairs has been fairly sophisticated.
Other college students requested have assured that the ‘Nothing’ questions have been simpler than these of ‘The Foundation’ and, though usually phrases they haven’t discovered the examination sophisticated, they’ve most well-liked to keep away from the examination mannequin that included rhetorical figures.
Two college students have defined that the frequent linguistic half is the one they see as the best, as a result of that they had been “training all of it month of May”, they usually agree with different college students in seeing Marías’ textual content on the human situation as sophisticated.
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