Questõesde UECE 2018 sobre Inglês

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

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

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 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 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 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 sentences “Out of a regimen of ferocious self-education, he established himself, initially as a writer of slender romances for and about the women of the ruling elite” (lines 42-46) and “In the Anglophone world, a similar kind of confusion surrounds Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), the son and sly chronicler of Rio de Janeiro” (lines 10-14) 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