Questão 66679

An English literature teacher is introducing a unit on poetry to a group of 10th-grade students who are skeptical about the genre, often finding it 'boring' or 'hard to understand.' The teacher's objective is to help them appreciate the specifics of literary language, particularly the concept that form and content are inseparable in a literary work. To do this, he decides to contrast two texts that deal with a similar subject—a cat. The first text is a simple, encyclopedic description of a domestic cat (Felis catus), detailing its physical characteristics, diet, and behavior in a clear, objective, and referential language. The second text is T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Naming of Cats.' The teacher wants to guide the students to understand why the poem is considered 'literary' while the encyclopedia entry is not. He plans to base the discussion on the concept of 'literariness' as defined by Russian Formalism, particularly the idea of 'defamiliarization' (ostranenie)—the artistic technique of presenting common things in an unfamiliar or strange way in order to enhance perception of the familiar. The challenge is to make this theoretical concept accessible and to lead students to discover it through their own analysis rather than just presenting them with a definition.

Which of the following guiding questions is most likely to lead students to an understanding of the specifics of literary language and the concept of defamiliarization?