Questões: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UERJ) — com gabarito

The context often helps if one needs to guess the meaning of an unknown word. For example, the word lyrics appears in three sentences from the text:

although the lyrics didn't make much sense to me: (l. 10)

His clever lyrics were often approved by the censors, (l. 24-25)

Nowadays, the lyrics are explicit (l. 34)

Based on these examples, lyrics is translated as:

At first sight, it appears to be a samba about a lover's quarrel. Actually, it was a sharp critique of the authoritarian regime (l. 27-28)

If the two sentences above are rewritten as one, the result is:

According to the author, Chico Buarque de Holanda was an expert in the art of writing songs with double meanings.

He did that with the following aim:

Besides describing the effect of the Brazilian political situation on the media, the first paragraph also mentions that the author had no idea of this situation at the time.

The author's complete lack of knowledge is best established by means of the following sentence:

“Peace without a voice is no peace but fear" (title) is a line from the song A paz que eu não quero, by the Brazilian band O Rappa. This line is an example of intertextuality. The resource used by the author that signals this process of intertextuality is:

O texto do escritor Rodrigo Lacerda sugere que, por meio da literatura, o leitor pode acompanhar perspectivas diferentes da própria.

O trecho que explicita o contato do leitor com perspectivas distintas é:

Os três benefícios fundamentais da leitura apresentados no texto são listados numa determinada ordem.

Essa ordem mostra uma organização na seguinte direção:

Isso era cinema. (l. 21)

O verbo assume, nesta frase, o sentido específico de indicar um estado de coisas que durava. No entanto, ele assume o sentido específico de indicar uma mudança sem retorno na seguinte reescritura: