ESCOLA ESTADUAL DE TEMPO INTEGRAL ZUZA JANUÁRIO

Componente Curricular: Língua Inglesa Turma Data

1) 8º ano /_ /2024
Professora: Erica Tavares

Estudante:

Traduza o texto abaixo e responda as questões.

BIOGRAPHY (Biografia):
Edgar Alan Poe was born in 1809, in Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. He was the second of three
children. David and Elizabeth, his parents, were actors. His father abandoned the family in 1810, and his
mother died the following year. He was an orphan at the age of three. He attended the university of Virginia.
In 1827, he enlisted in the United States Army. Following his Army service, Poe was admitted to the United
States Military Academy of West Point, but he was again forced to leave for lack of financial support. From
1831 to 1835, Edgar Allan Poe lived in Baltimore, where his father was born, with his aunt Maria Clemm
and her daughter, his cousin Virginia. He began to devote his attention to his cousin and in 1836, they got
married. She was only 13 years old In 1847, at the age of 24 —— Virginia passed away from tuberculosis.
Poe was overcome by grief following her death. He continued to work, suffering from poor health and
struggling with financial problems. He was an American writer, poet, critic and editor best known for
evocative short stories and Virginia, who became his literary inspiration as poems that captured the
imagination and interest of readers around the world. He died in 1849. Poe’s work as an editor, a poet, and a
critic had a profound impact on American and international literature. His stories mark him as one of the
originators of both horror and detective fiction. Many anthologies credit him as the “architect” of the
modern short story.
https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/poet/edgar-allan-poe

2. Perguntas para serem respondidas de acordo com o texto acima.

a) Quando nasceu Edgar Allan Poe?
b) Onde nasceu ele?
c) Quantos anos ele viveu?
d) Edgar casou-se com sua prima que conheceu quando morou com sua tia Maria Clemm. Como ela se
chamava? . E que idade tinha quando eles se
casaram?
e) Em que ano morreu Edgar Allan Poe?
f) De que morreu sua prima ainda jovem?
g) Além de escritor, poeta e crítico, o que mais foi Allan Poe?