Test work based on the work of A.I. Kuprin "Golden Rooster"

“The Golden Rooster” is a typical example of this writer’s lyrical sketches. Through all his work runs the image of nature, which in Kuprin’s artistic world is inextricably linked with the concept of man.

"The Golden Rooster" is part of a series of paintings miniatures, the main theme of which is the poetic, harmonious and beautiful world of nature. The plot of this story is quite simple: the lyrical hero (whose personality in this case is close to the personality of the author himself) tells about an incident that happened to him early on a summer morning at a dacha near Paris. Waking up from the bright light and morning freshness, the hero, opening the window, sits on the windowsill. With what pleasure he inhales the aromas of plants and earth, with what attentiveness and sensitivity he observes the awakening of all living things. A special thrill in the hero’s heart (it is no coincidence that he calls it a miracle) is caused by the ringing and piercing crow of a rooster, which echoes throughout the entire area. This sound, amazing in its purity and power, evokes a whole chain of memories in the hero’s soul. More than once he heard roosters crowing in his homeland, and now, in France, he again felt the charm of this wonderful music.

In the description of cock crowing, Kuprin’s concept of nature, touched upon by him in many other works, is most clearly demonstrated. The encounter with everything living becomes for the hero (and the author himself) an attempt to get closer to the mystery of the world, to at least briefly escape from business and everyday worries and feel a completely different sense of time. The simple crowing of roosters, a seemingly completely ordinary sound that would not evoke any emotion in an ordinary person, is perceived by the hero as magical music. And the roosters themselves seem to him to be special royal creatures, bringing light to the Earth and worshiping their golden god.

Every detail, every moment of the life of nature, according to Kuprin, is a great sacrament. All artistic means used in the story are designed to emphasize this idea. A simple composition, practically devoid of any plot twists, shows the reader that only those feelings and sensations that are born in the soul of the hero are important in this case. The story “The Golden Rooster” is one of Kuprin’s best lyrical miniatures, a wonderful example impressionism in literature. In this work, the author expressed the full depth of experiences that occur in the heart of a sensitive, sensitive person, and those special, incomparable impressions that the natural world gives him.

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Option 1. A.I. Kuprin “Golden Rooster”.

I then woke up before it was light, woke up somehow suddenly, without a dull transition from sleep to reality, with a feeling of light freshness and with a sweet confidence that there, outside the windows, in the open sky, in the gentle clarity of the dawning morning, some simple thing was happening and a lovely miracle. So, sometimes I was gently awakened before dawn by the cheerful song of a starling or the daring but melodious whistle of a blackbird.

I opened the window and sat on the windowsill. In the still cold air there were naive aromas of herbs, leaves, bark, and earth. In the dark chandeliers of chestnuts, fragments of night fog, stuck at night like the thinnest muslin, were still tangled. But the trees had already woken up and shivered, opening joyfully and lazily millions of their eyes: don’t the trees see and hear?

But the cheerful chattering starling and the carefree whistling thrush were silent that morning. Perhaps, just like me, they listened carefully, with surprise, to those strange, incomprehensible, never-before-heard sounds - powerful and ringing - from which every particle of the air seemed to tremble.

2. Write down epithets, personifications, metaphors from this passage.

3. How is the sense of miracle conveyed in the passage?

4. What does the narrator compare the crowing of roosters to?

Option 2. A.I. Kuprin “Golden Rooster”.

Read the passage and complete the tasks for it.

And now, at this bashful hour, when the earth, trees and sky, which had just bathed in the cool of the night, were silently putting on their morning clothes, I thought with excitement: after all, all the roosters are crowing now, every single one of them, old, elderly, young and one-year-old boys - all of them living in a huge area already illuminated by the sun, and in one that in a few moments will shine in the sun's rays. In the area accessible to intense human hearing, there is not a single town, not a single village, farm, yard, where every rooster, stretching its head upward and puffing up the feathers on its throat, does not throw triumphant, beautifully furious sounds into the sky. Everywhere - in Versailles, in Saint-Germain and Malmaison, in Ruelle, Suresnes, in Garches, in Marne-la-Coquette, in Vaucreson, Meudon and on the outskirts of Paris - the song of hundreds of thousands of enthusiastic rooster voices sounds simultaneously. What human orchestra would not seem pitiful in comparison with this magical and powerful choir, where the individual sounds of a cock’s crow could no longer be heard, but a major chord flowed loudly against a background of purple and gold do!

At times, the nearby roosters fell silent for a few moments, as if they were holding a strict, precise pause, and then I heard a wave of sounds roll further and further to the most distant places and, as if reflected there, returned back, increasing, growing, soaring in a ringing singing wave to my window, to the roofs, to the treetops. These wide waves of sound rolled out from north to south, from west to east in some wonderful, incomprehensible fugue. This is probably how the troops of magnificent ancient Rome met their triumphant Caesar. The cohorts located on the hills and heights were the first to see his solemn chariot and greeted it with distant exclamations of joy, and below the enthusiastic legions shouted with metallic voices, whose ranks, one after another, were already illuminated by the shining gaze of his radiant eyes.

1. What genre does the work belong to?

A) story b) poem c) fable

2.How is the special sound of a rooster crow conveyed?

3.What musical terms are heard in the text?

Option 3. A.I. Kuprin “Golden Rooster”.

Read the passage and complete the tasks for it.

I listened to this wonderful music with excitement, almost with delight. It did not deafen the ear, but sweetly filled and saturated the ear. What a strange, what an extraordinary morning! What happened today to the roosters of the whole neighborhood, maybe the whole country, maybe the whole globe? Don't they celebrate the longest sunny day and joyfully sing all the delights of summer: the warmth of the sun's rays, hot sand, fragrant delicious herbs, the endless joys of love and the stormy joy of battle, when two strong rooster bodies violently collide in the air, elastic wings beat tightly, pierce Curved steel beaks pierce the meat, and feathers and splashes of blood fly from a cloud of swirling dust. Or, perhaps, today is the day of the three hundredth millennium of the memory of the Ancient Rooster - the forefather of all roosters in the world, the one who, as a warrior and king, who knew no one’s power above himself, completely ruled over vast forests, fields and rivers?

And finally, perhaps, I thought, today, before the longest working day of the summer, the clouds in the east delayed the sun for a few moments, and the sun-worshipping roosters, who deified light and warmth, called out in sacred impatience to their fiery god.

1. What mood does the author experience from what he heard?
2. What, according to the author, made the roosters delighted? You write.
3. Indicate the features of the fairytale and mythological in the passage.
4. What genre does the work belong to?

A) story b) poem c) fable

Option 4. A.I. Kuprin “Golden Rooster”.

Read the passage and complete the tasks for it.

Now the golden fire has permeated everything: the sky, the air, and the earth. Straining their last strength, in selfless ecstasy, trembling with bliss, closing their eyes in ecstasy, a countless rooster choir sings a magnificent doxology! And now I no longer understand - are the sun’s rays ringing like golden trumpets, or is the rooster’s hymn shining like the sun’s rays? The Great Golden Rooster floats into the sky in his fiery solitude. Here it is, the old beautiful myth about the Phoenix - a mysterious bird that burned itself last night on the magnificent bonfire of the evening dawn, and today rose again in the East from ashes, smoke and hot coals!

1. What genre does the work belong to?

A) story b) poem c) fable

3. What delighted the narrator in the cock choir, what did he hear in it?

4.What figurative means allow you to feel the writer’s delight?

Read the passage and complete the tasks for it.

1. What genre does the work belong to?

A) story b) poem c) fable

Option 5. A.I. Kuprin “Golden Rooster”.

Read the passage and complete the tasks for it.

The whole day I was under the influence of this enchanting and powerful music. At about two o'clock I had to go into one house. In the middle of the courtyard stood a huge Longchamp rooster. The gold of his uniform sparkled almost dazzlingly in the bright rays of the sun, the green and blue tints of his blued steel armor shone, and satin ribbons fluttered: red, black and white. Carefully walking around this handsome man, I bent down and asked:

“Were you the one who sang so well at dawn today?”

He cast a dissatisfied side glance at me, turned away, lowered his head, scratched his beak back and forth across the sand and muttered something in a dissatisfied, hoarse bass voice. I can’t guarantee that I understood him, but I thought he said: “What do you care?”

I wasn't offended. I was just embarrassed. I know myself that I am just a weak, pathetic person, nothing more. My dry heart cannot contain the frantic sacred delights of a rooster chanting to its golden god. But isn’t it also possible for me, modestly, in my own way, to be in love with the eternal, beautiful, life-giving, kind sun?

1. What genre does the work belong to?

A) story b) poem c) fable

2. Why does the narrator call the Longchamp rooster “you”. And yourself as a “weak, pathetic person, nothing more?”

3. Make a quotation plan for the entire story.

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5th grade

Subject. The story of A.I. Kuprin “The Golden Rooster”. Theme, features of creating an image.

Target:

identify the artistic idea of ​​the story, the role of artistic and visual means in the story;

develop skills in expressive reading, retelling, lexical work, and working with a textbook;

to educate students’ moral and aesthetic ideas during the analysis of the story.

Equipment: story texts.

DURING THE CLASSES.

I. Organizing time.

II. Analysis of the content of A.I. Kuprin’s story “The Golden Rooster”.

1. Report the topic of the lesson, setting goals and objectives.

2. The teacher's word.

At the end of 1919, Kuprin was forced to leave his homeland. In mid-1920, the writer settled in France. A long, eighteen-year period of his life in a foreign land began.

It is noteworthy that in works written abroad, the writer pays a lot of attention to nature. Admiring the French landscape, Kuprin, however, recalls the features of his native Russian nature.

All of Kuprin’s works of this period are characterized by one feature: the writer lovingly notes the features of the past, infinitely dear to his heart and clearly idealized by him.

In 1923, his new works “Fate” and “Golden Rooster” appeared.

The past of Russia, memories of Russian people, morals and customs, nature and legends telling about human beauty and nobility - this is what Kuprin gives the strength of his talent to.

The short story-poem “The Golden Rooster” is noteworthy. In it, the writer glorifies nature, the sun and the singing of sun-worshipping roosters with such joy that you are literally amazed at his inexhaustible love for life.

3. Referring to the textbook. Reading the history of the creation of the story “The Golden Rooster”.

What mood is imbued with A.I. Kuprin’s story “The Golden Rooster”?

Which episodes of the story did you find most striking?

Where do the events described in the story take place?

4. The teacher's word.

The chapter “Suburb” in the book of memoirs by the daughter of the writer K.A. Kuprin “Kuprin is my father” tells about this period of his life.

“Since his arrival in Paris, my father dreamed of buying a house away from the noisy city. He needs silence and nature. My father really wanted to restore the Gatchina way of life - to dig into the soil.

The dacha was rented in Sèvres-Ville, Avre. Like Gatchina, it was close to the railway and half an hour’s drive from the city. But that’s where the similarities with Gatchina ended.

A stone two-story house with a narrow sloping garden. In the spring it looked attractive: lilacs and lush rhododendrons were blooming, and the south side of the house was entwined with creeping tea roses. Inside, the dacha was furnished in bourgeois French taste, with many figurines, gilded cupids and glass covers, under which the wedding crown of the owners of the house and wax bouquets were kept.

The alien situation, the alien land and the alien plants on it began to cause my father a bitter longing for distant Russia.

Nothing was nice to him. Even the smells of earth and flowers. He said that lilacs smell like kerosene. Very soon he stopped digging in the flower beds and beds.”

5. Working with text.

Find lines in the story that express the feelings of a writer living far from his homeland.

Expressive reading of a fragment of the story from the words “I know the power and shrillness of the rooster’s cry...” to the words “... the victorious cry of the rooster.”

6. The teacher's word.

This episode reflected A.I. Kuprin’s memories of flying in a hot air balloon with S.I. Utochkin, an athlete and one of the first aeronauts and pilots, editor of Odessa News I.M. Heifetz and correspondent of the newspaper Russkoe Slovo I.A.Gorelik. In an hour and a half flight over Odessa, they reached an altitude of 1250 meters and landed outside the city. The writer described his impressions of the flight in the essay “Above the Ground.”

7. Working with the textbook.

7.1. An expressive reading of a fragment of the story from the words “I then woke up before dawn ...” to the words “... from which every particle of air seemed to tremble.”

What word, heard in this episode, conveys the impression experienced by the narrator when he saw the picture of awakening nature?

How is the sense of miracle conveyed in the passage? (The nature around is wonderful and spiritual. Epithets, comparisons, personifications, metaphors create a picture filled with life).

7.2. Research work with text.

Write down epithets, personifications and metaphors from this passage.

What does the narrator compare the crowing of roosters to?

7.3. Expressive reading from the words “And now, in this shameful hour...” to the words “... with the shining gaze of his radiant eyes.”

How is the sound of a rooster crowing conveyed in the story? What musical terms are heard in the text?

7.4. Lexical work.

Determine the meaning of the words “pianissimo”, “fugue”, cohort”, “legion”.

Pianissimo - h extremely quiet sound, one of the shades of dynamics in music.

Fugue - a musical form that is the highest achievement of polyphonic music. In a fugue there are several voices, each of which, in accordance with strict rules, repeats, in basic or modified form, a theme - a short melody that runs through the entire fugue.

Cohort - one of the units of the Roman legion from the time of Marius, who strengthened the legion to 6,000 people and divided it into 10 cohorts.

Legion - the main organizational unit in the army of Ancient Rome. The legion consisted of 5 thousand infantry and several hundred horsemen.

7.5. Teacher's word.

Triumphant Caesar. Triumph in Rome is the ceremonial entry into the capital of a victorious commander and his troops. Triumph was considered the highest award for a military leader, which could only be awarded to the commander-in-chief. The triumphant rode standing on a round gilded chariot drawn by four horses. The musicians walked behind. The triumphant man was surrounded by children and other relatives, behind them stood a slave holding a golden wreath above his head. His assistants moved next; soldiers in full attire, with all the awards they had. Triumphants had the right to wear triumphal attire on holidays.

What is the meaning of comparing the rooster to the Roman triumphant?

The Rooster is the bird of Glory, meaning superiority, courage, vigilance, dawn. Two fighting roosters mean the battle of life. Read expressively a fragment of the story that conveys the symbolic meaning of the image of the rooster, from the words “I heard this wonderful music with excitement ...” to the words “... in the sacred impatience of my fiery-faced god.”

What colors is the sunrise in the story?

7.6. Expressive reading of the fragment from the words “Now there is a golden fire ...” to the words “... from ashes, smoke and hot coals.”

8. Message from a prepared student about the Phoenix bird.

The Phoenix is ​​a mythological bird that has the ability to burn itself and then be reborn. Known in the mythologies of different cultures, it is often associated with the solar cult. The phoenix was believed to have an eagle-like appearance with bright red or golden-red plumage. Anticipating death, he burns himself in his own nest, and a chick emerges from the ashes. According to other versions of the myth, the Phoenix itself is reborn from the ashes. It was generally believed that the Phoenix was the only, unique individual of its species. Phoenix is ​​a symbol of eternal renewal.

In the Christian world, the Phoenix means the triumph of eternal life, resurrection, faith, constancy; it is a symbol of Christ. In early Christianity, the Phoenix is ​​constantly found on funeral slabs: here its meaning is victory over death, resurrection from the dead. In Rus', the Phoenix had analogues: the Firebird and the Finist.

9.Working with text.

9.1. Lexical work.

Explain the meaning of the word “selfless.”

What is the mood in the passage? What meaning does the phrase take on: “And now I don’t understand - are the sun’s rays ringing with golden trumpets, or is the cock’s anthem shining like the sun’s rays?”?

9.2. Expressive reading of the passage from the words “All day long I was under the impression of this charming and powerful music ...” to the end of the story.

Why does the narrator call the Longchamp rooster “you” and himself “a weak, pitiful person, nothing more”? (It is human nature to feel one’s imperfection in the face of an ideally beautiful nature, full of grandeur and harmony).

10.Referring to the textbook. Reading the article “In the world of artistic expression by A.I. Kuprin.”

III. Summing up the lesson.

What is the author's position in the story? In which episodes does it sound most clearly? (In the narrator’s memories of the distant past, the voice of the author is heard, mourning the separation from his homeland; in the enthusiastic description of the beauty of nature and the welcoming song of the roosters, the author’s admiration for the greatness and harmony of the world is felt).

IV. Checking homework.

Quotation plans.

“This miracle happened.”

“I didn’t suddenly realize that it was the roosters crowing.”

“I know the power and shrillness of a cock’s crow.”

“What a strange, what an extraordinary morning!”

“The great golden rooster floats into the sky in his fiery solitude.”

“The whole day I was under the influence of this enchanting and powerful music.”

Retelling the work from a third person.

V. Homework.

Ind. tasks:

Prepare a report on some facts about the pedigree of the Beketov and Blok families;

Prepare an exhibition of photographs of A.A. Blok’s family members.