Questões: Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE) — com gabarito

The sentences “The endings are frequently murky and strange, often abruptly truncated” (lines 80-81) and “Like his characters, Machado was a creature of literature” (lines 106-107) contain, respectively, a/an

The sentences “In one tale, a dictator, bald since youth, decrees that all his subjects must also shave their heads” (lines 73-75) and “In another, a father intent on grooming his son to become ‘a bigwig’ demands he cultivate the necessary vapidity” (139-142) contain, respectively, a/an

The verb tenses in “Machado’s stories pulse with life” (line 79) and “Yet Machado is always writing...” (line 124), are

In terms of voice of the verb, the sentences “To Machado, your identity and the contours of your world are formed not just by your circumstances but by what you think about habitually” (lines 147- 150) and “Prolonged illness (Machado was epileptic), and the near loss of his sight, snapped him to attention” (lines 48-51) are classified, respectively as

The sentences “...it still offers a different and valuable vantage point — especially for readers who like to keep an eye on the life as well as the art” (lines 63-66) and “The gentle romantic blossomed into a wicked ironist whose authorial intrusions, jump cuts and sheer mischief influenced American experimentalists like John Barth and Donald Barthelme” (lines 51-56) contain, respectively, relative clauses which are

As to the sentences “Few fiction writers have written so affectionately about ideas” (127-129), “You are what you contemplate, so choose wisely” (lines 150-151), “slavery ended in Brazil only in 1888” (lines 119-120) and “Above all looms the figure of the bibliomane” (lines 94-95), it is correct to state that

The –ING words “training” (line 40), “ruling” (line 46), and “flitting” (line122) function respectively as