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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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CEBRASPE (CESPE) · 2025

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 sentence “The poems are quite short” (last sentence of the second paragraph), “quite” is a degree adverb modifying the adjective “short”.
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Comentário: A afirmativa está correta porque, na frase "The poems are quite short", o termo "quite" atua como um advérbio de grau que modifica o adjetivo "short". Isso significa que "quite" intensifica a característica de brevidade dos poemas, indicando que eles são, de fato, curtos em um grau considerável. Essa utilização é comum na língua inglesa para expressar a intensidade de adjetivos, reforçando a ideia que se quer transmitir.

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