This research had for objective to study the lexis of Urupês , by Monteiro Lobato and make a glossary of the neologisms found in that work. It is linked to the project named 'Dictionaries of the Literary Neologisms of the Portuguese Language of Brazil', Master's degree program in Linguistics of the Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. Our hypothesis is that Lobato looks for the construction of unusual words which represent the poetic effect he intends to present. He works on the lexicon of the Portuguese Language in the attempt of contextualizing the characters that are far from the urban areas. Another hypothesis would be that his lexical creations can affectively rescue the time and the author's experiences. Our work firstly consis...