REVISE – Coketown #639537 - Prove ed esercizi Zanichelli

STEP 1 Coketown comes alive

Dickens offers a very sensorially rich description of Coketown. Select the elements present in the passage that help create this effect.

A:

The endless smoke trailing from the tall chimneys.

B:

The town's adherence to fact and practicality.

C:

The painted red and black bricks of the town.

D:

The people belonging to eighteen different denominations.

E:

The black canal and river dyed with chemicals.

F:

The rattling and trembling of the machinery in the factories.

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STEP 3 An obsession with workfulness

Select the features that illustrate the alienation of workers and the town's obsession with 'workfulness'.

A:

The black canal in Coketown.

B:

The fact that people have identical schedules and do the same work.

C:

The fine lady disliking any mention of Coketown.

D:

The design of all buildings being practical, without any ornaments.

E:

The 'New Church' having short wooden pinnacles on its steeple.

F:

Facts and figures being turned into a prayer.

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STEP 4 A utilitarian fantasy

Decide whether each statement about life in Coketown is fact or fiction.

1 Streets are indistinguishable and produce the same sounds. ________
2 Townspeople are satisfied with their lives and grateful for all the comforts provided. ________
3 Each resident has a unique lifestyle. ________
4 The labouring people belong to eighteen different religious denominations. ________

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STEP 2 Tenors and vehicles

Look at the pictures to revise the definition of metaphor and simile. Then match each vehicle to its respective tenor and identify the semantic common ground between the vehicles.

Tenors	Common ground	Vehicles
1 Brics 2 Chimney smoke 3 Piston	________	1 ________ 2 ________ 3 ________

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STEP 5 Think further and prepare for your test: industrialisation and alienation

Imagine you are Dickens, acting as a journalist, describing Coketown as it really is, and complete the text with the words given. Then look at the prompts in brackets and write some extra reflections in your exercise book. You can use the final text as revision material for your test.

Coketown rises in a ________ mist that ________ the streets and buildings. The air is so thick with smoke that it is hard to ________. No one uses the river to wash their clothes or drink, unless they wish to be poisoned by ________ waste (Refer to the paragraph 'Early Victorian city life' in section 7.2 of your textbook to enrich the description of urban life). Every facility is nearly ________, leaving no space for individuality or comfort (Refer to STEPS 3 and 4 and explain how the buildings' appearance relates to utilitarian values). Outsiders do not care about the town's conditions as long as they can benefit from its ________ (Refer to the paragraph 'Didactic aim' in section 7.11 of your textbook to discuss how the 'fine lady' could well represent the ruling classes Dickens wanted to enlighten). ________, or 'workfulness', governs the town, so that people follow a ________ daily routine, while the constant hum of ________ fills the air (Refer to the paragraph 'Early Victorian thinkers' in section 7.4 of your textbook to give a definition of utilitarianism). Creativity and pleasure have been ________: citizens lead a ________ existence. The ________ of rules and efficiency, it seems, is human vitality, imagination, and happiness.

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