Prova de 2018: Universidade Estadual do Ceará (UECE) — questões com gabarito

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

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

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

The sentence “The Collected Stories reveals the arc of Machado’s career…” (lines 67-68) and “This creation of a personal cartography… might explain one of the lingering frustrations with Machado’s work” (lines 113-117) contain, respectively, a/an

The sentences “Though he never roved far from his hometown he read widely” (lines 108- 110) 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) are classified, respectively, as

The author mentions a point of connection that he personally sees in the works of Machado de Assis and Alice Munro, which is the fact that they both

It is surprising that Machado, considered the greatest Latin American writer by Sontag, was never

Nos versos da canção “Água mole, pedra dura/Tanto bate que não restará nem pensamento” (linhas 117-119), o autor refaz um conhecido provérbio popular. Sobre esta mudança, é correto afirmar que