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Gabriele Tinti’s Hungry Ghosts is a cycle of 51 poems written in collaboration with the photographer Roger Ballen, whose photographic negatives are reproduced in the book. The imag

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Gabriele Tinti’s Hungry Ghosts is a cycle of 51 poems written in collaboration with the photographer Roger Ballen, whose photographic negatives are reproduced in the book. The images are mostly terrifying, in keeping with the otherworldly inclination of the poems. This bilingual edition includes Tinti’s original Italian poems with English translations by David Graham, interspersed with Greek lines taken from inscriptions found on archaeological objects and from ancient Greek texts.

The book is inspired by the Petavatthu, a Theravada Buddhist scripture that includes stories about the realm of the “hungry ghosts,” a category of supernatural beings ubiquitous in East and South Asian religions, with section headings such as “Abandoned Ghosts,” “Protectors,” “Guardians,” and “Hungry Ghosts.” The poems a requites hort and try to emulate the obscure, esoteric quality of scriptural language, though they struggle, at times, under the weight of too many venerable references drawn from both Buddhist and Greek traditions.

Internet: <poetryfoundation.org> (adapted).

About the linguistic and lexical features of the preceding text, judge the follow item.

In the text, the word “terrifying” (second sentence of the first paragraph) conveys a sense of intense fear and is an adjective formed from the verb to terrify.
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Comentário: A afirmação está correta porque a palavra "terrifying" é um adjetivo que expressa um sentimento intenso de medo, derivado do verbo "to terrify", que significa causar medo. A formação do adjetivo a partir do verbo é um processo comum na língua inglesa, onde se utiliza a adição do sufixo "-ing" para indicar uma qualidade ou característica que provoca a ação do verbo. Portanto, "terrifying" descreve algo que causa terror, alinhando-se perfeitamente ao contexto do texto que discute as imagens perturbadoras e a temática de fantasmas famintos.

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