AVP SEMINÁRIOS EM LÍNGUA INGLESA DISCURSO LITERÁRIO

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1a Questão (Ref.: 201408646050)
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	In relation to literary and non literary texts, it is WRONG to say that:
		
	
	In the context of classical literature studies, literary and nonliterary refer to stylistic elements.
	
	This distinction is important for those studying Literature.
	
	There is a classical sense in which literary and nonliterary may be distinguished.
	 
	Literary and non literary texts cannot be distinguished since their nature is pretty much alike.
	
	This is also a distinction important to those wishing to establish careers as literary authors.
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	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201409098590)
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	Consider the following quote: "Fortunately language isn't all work. There is also play. And the playful use of language is both important and widespread. . . ." (Source:grammarabout.com). Though sometimes it is not easy to figure out the purpose of text, one can say that the quote refers to texts that intend to ....................
		
	 
	amuse
	
	criticize
	
	satirize
	
	inform
	
	praise
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	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201409104798)
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	Indeed, when writing a story, the writer presents his/her private world and by doing this, he/she intends to please, distract and/or move -----------.
		
	
	teachers
	
	actors
	
	writers
	
	speakers
	 
	readers
		
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201409107275)
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	Literature, as a subjective human expression, enables readers to understand not only themselves, but also --------------------.
		
	
	the men ´s power
	
	the children ´s problems
	
	american values
	
	their neighbor ´s problems
	 
	other people ´ s culture
		
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201408646312)
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	Just as the two faces of a coin, literature and culture are connected to each in an indisputable and inseparable way. Chhose the alterantive that correctly shows this close relation.
		
	 
	Literature, through its unique form of expression, is able to highlight those factors which are essential for a society, for example, its problems, its customs, as well as its political and social organization.
	
	Literature, through its common form of expression, is able to highlight those factors which are essential for a society, for example, its problems, its customs, as well as its political and social organization.
	
	Painting, through its unique form of expression, is able to highlight those factors which are essential for a society, for example, its problems, its customs, as well as its political and social organization.
	
	Literature, through its unique form of expression, is not able to highlight those factors which are essential for a society, for example, its problems, its customs, as well as its political and social organization.
	
	Literature, through its unique form of expression, is able to hide those factors which are essential for a society, for example, its problems, its customs, as well as its political and social organization.
		
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201408646323)
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	Which of the items below CANNOT be considereda key characteristic of culture:
		
	
	Culture is a descriptive not an evaluative concept.
	
	Culture is learned.
	 
	The various parts of a culture are not related at all.
	
	Culture is both an individual construct and a social construct.
	
	Culture is subject to gradual change.
		
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201408653920)
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	Choose the CORRECT alternative:
		
	
	The dramatic genre is presented on a stage, where actors give concrete form to feelings.
	 
	The dramatic genre is presented on a stage, where actors give concrete form to characters.
	
	The dramatic genre is presented on a stage, where actors give abstract form to characters.
	
	The dramatic genre is not presented on a stage, where actors give concrete form to characters.
	
	The dramatic genre is presented on a stage, where actors don¿t give concrete form to characters.
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	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201409022441)
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	Words are ____________________ because there is no natural resemblance between the forms of linguistic signs and their meaning.
		
	 
	arbitrary
	
	consistant
	
	sound
	
	logical
	
	reasonable
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	 9a Questão (Ref.: 201408653859)
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	Em relação à importância da literatura para o desenvolvimento do ser humano, podemos dizer que:
		
	
	a literatura deforma o reciocínio humano, pois é incapaz de revelar um diálogo com a realidade.
	
	a literatura deforma o raciocínio humano, pois permite unicamente que se constitua uma visão pessoal sobre a realidade..
	 
	a literatura amplia os horizontes do o raciocínio humano, pois a cada leitor uma visão ampla da realidade que o circunda a partir do diálogo com as situações apresentadas no texto.
	
	a literatura deforma o raciocínio humano, pois o normalmente trabalha com o reforço de idéias preconceituosas.
	
	a literatura deforma o raciocínio humano, pois o aliena em relação à realidade.
		
	
	
	 10a Questão (Ref.: 201408653861)
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	It¿s not a simple task to make a clear distinction between non-literary and literary texts because:
		
	
	they¿ re mutually exclusive texts, but rather interdependent
	
	they¿re not mutually exclusive texts, because they are the same thing.
	 
	they¿re not mutually exclusive texts, but rather interdependent.
	
	they¿re not mutually exclusive texts, and specially dependent
	
	they¿re not mutually exclusive texts, but rather dependent
		
	1a Questão (Ref.: 201409098590)
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	Consider the following quote: "Fortunately language isn't all work. There is also play. And the playful use of language is both important and widespread. . . ." (Source:grammarabout.com). Though sometimes it is not easy to figure out the purpose of text, one can say that the quote refers to texts that intend to ....................
		
	
	inform
	
	criticize
	 
	amuse
	
	satirize
	
	praise
		 Gabarito Comentado.
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201409104546)
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	Choose the most appropriate option which completes the following sentence: We can say that a text is composed of
		
	
	the relationship between correct sounds and words
	
	right spelling and drawings
	
	the relationship between grammar and words
	 
	the relationship between reality and the way the author acts upon it
	
	letters and good writing
		
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201408646279)
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	Choose the alternative that presents a CORRECT possible definition of literature:
		
	
	Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, ¿literature¿ is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of plastic art.
	
	Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, ¿literature¿ is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer to technical works without any creative imagination.
	 
	Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, ¿literature¿ is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works,but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
	
	Literature is a term used to describe only spoken material. Broadly speaking, ¿literature¿ is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is most commonly used to refer to works of the creative imagination, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
	
	Literature is a term used to describe written or spoken material. Broadly speaking, ¿literature¿ is used to describe anything from creative writing to more technical or scientific works, but the term is never used to refer to works of the creative imagination, including works of poetry, drama, fiction, and nonfiction.
		
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201408646287)
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	David Daisches, in A Study of Literature for Reading and Critics (Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 1948)24 comments the relation between fiction and human mind. Actually he gives prominence to the positive effects that derive from this relation. Read the following alternatives and choos the one that agrees with Daisches perspective.
		
	
	Fiction enables us to explore the concrete reality of human life; history allows us only the natural light of day, which does not usually shine into such places. Literature is man¿s exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
	
	Non fiction Fiction enables us to explore the recesses of man¿s head and heart with a torch; history allows us only the natural light of day, which does not usually shine into such places. Literature is man¿s exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
	
	Fiction does not enable us to explore the recesses of man¿s head and heart with a torch; history allows us only the natural light of day, which does not usually shine into such places. Literature is man¿s exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
	 
	Fiction enables us to explore the recesses of man¿s head and heart with a torch; history allows us only the natural light of day, which does not usually shine into such places. Literature is man¿s exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
	
	Fiction enables us to explore the recesses of man¿s head and heart with a torch, but history allows us a broader perception of human natural light of day, which does not usually shine into such places. Literature is man¿s exploration of man by artificial light, which is better than natural light because we can direct it where we want.
		
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201409107285)
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	According to our studies, Spencer-Oatley (2012) provided some key caracteristics of culture. Choose the INCORRECT option:
		
	
	Culture is manifested at different layers of depth.
	
	There is no such thing as a HIGH or LOW culture. Cultures are either similar or different from each other.
	
	Culture is shared by some sort of social group or society.
	 
	Culture is something we do not learn.
	
	Culture is not uniformly distributed, i.e., group members do not share identical behaviors, attitudes and so on. Rather, they show family resemblances.
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	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201408646291)
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	Choose the alternative that is WRONG in relation to the definition of language:
		
	
	Language gives access to the accumulated records of other people's experience
	
	Language is far too complicated, intriguing, and mysterious to be adequately explained by a brief definition.
	 
	Language is communication of specific and limited through a system of prdictable signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols.
	
	Language is an anonymous, collective and unconscious art; the result of the creativity of thousands of generations."(Edward Sapir)
	
	Language is succinctly defined in our glossary as a "human system of communication that uses arbitrary signals, such as voice sounds, gestures, or written symbols."
		
	
	
	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201408646361)
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	Language functions are related to the fact that speakers can adapt their way of communicating in accordance with the objective they phave in mind. Choose the alternative that is contradicting the previous statement:
		
	
	A lot of what we say is for a specific purpose.
	 
	Whether we are apologizing, expressing a wish or asking permission, we can not use language in order to fulfill that purpose.
	
	Language functions has to do with the way speakers organize language in order to fulfill a specific purpose, therefore making their speech more meaningful.
	
	Each purpose can be known as a language function.
	
	A language function as ¿the use to which language is put, the purpose of an utterance rather than the particular grammatical form an utterance takes¿.
		
	
	
	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201409110766)
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	According to the great linguist Ferdinand de Saussure, language is a system of signs which encode ---------------.
		
	
	structures
	
	criticism
	
	grammar
	
	characteristics
	 
	information
		
	
	
	 9a Questão (Ref.: 201408646354)
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	Having in minde the concept and the characteristics of language, choose the statement that is corretc in relation to it:
		
	
	Languages evolve and diversify over a certain period of time, and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by comparing ancient languages to determine which traits their ancestral languages must have had in order for the later developmental stages to stop.
	 
	Languages evolve and diversify over time, and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by comparing modern languages to determine which traits their ancestral languages must have had in order for the later developmental stages to occur.
	
	Languages does not evolve and diversify over time, and the history of their evolution can not be reconstructed by comparing modern languages to determine which traits their modern languages must have had in order for the later developmental stages to occur.
	
	Languages evolve and diversify over time, and the history of their evolution can not be reconstructed by comparing modern languages to determine which traits their ancestral languages must have had in order for the later developmental stages to occur.
	
	Languages evolve and diversify over time, and the history of their evolution can be reconstructed by eliminating modern languages to determine which traits their modern languages must have had in order for the later developmental stages to occur.
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	 10a Questão (Ref.: 201408653862)
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	Literary texts usually present the following characteristics, EXCEPT:
		
	
	Conotação poética evidenciada;
	
	Criatividade acentuada;
	
	Estruturas gramaticais singulares;
	 
	Objetividade e foco na informação
	
	Subjetividade predominante;
		
	1a Questão (Ref.: 201409022125)
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	Read the following text by Stephen Colbert: ´Tomorrow you're all going to wake up in a brave new world, a world where the Constitution gets trampled by an army of terrorist clones, created in a stem-cell research lab run by homosexual doctors who sterilize their instruments over burning American flags. Where tax-and-spend Democrats take all your hard-earned money and use it to buy electric cars for National Public Radio,and teach evolution to illegal immigrants. Oh, and everybody's high! If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it.´ (source: http://examples.yourdictionary.com) - In terms of function, this text intends to .....
		
	
	persuade
	
	amuse
	
	praise
	 
	satirize
	
	inform
		
	
	
	 2a Questão (Ref.: 201409154684)
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	Literary texts are constantly enriched by vocabulary and structures from ------------- as well.
		
	
	poetry
	 
	non-literary texts
	
	dictionaries
	
	manuals
	
	norms
		
	
	
	 3a Questão (Ref.: 201409104798)
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	Indeed, when writing a story, the writer presents his/her private world and by doing this, he/she intends to please, distract and/or move -----------.
		
	
	teachers
	
	speakers
	 
	readers
	
	writers
	
	actors
		
	
	
	 4a Questão (Ref.: 201408646261)
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	Fictional works enable readers to embark on an intellectual journey that will expand their knowledge considerably. Taking that into consideration, read the alternatives below and choos the alternative that is corretc in relation to the kind of text in question:
		
	
	Fictional works expose readers to a variety of experiences that they can be achieved through the reading of any kind of text
	
	Fictional works are universal, but they do not affect us deeply.
	
	Fictional works speak to us in the same way that nonfiction works do.
	 
	Fictional works are a very subjective and debatable issue.
	
	Fictional works don´t have a greater impact on people¿s lives than nonfiction works
		
	
	
	 5a Questão (Ref.: 201408646323)
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	Which of the items below CANNOT be considereda key characteristic of culture:
		
	
	Culture is both an individual construct and a social construct.
	
	Culture is learned.
	
	Culture is a descriptive not an evaluative concept.
	
	Culture is subject to gradual change.
	 
	The various parts of a culture are not related at all.
		
	
	
	 6a Questão (Ref.: 201408646313)
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	Which of the items below CANNOT be considered part of the concept of culture?
		
	
	Values
	 
	Individual habits
	
	Attitudes
	
	Beliefs
	
	Custons
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	 7a Questão (Ref.: 201408653920)
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	Choose the CORRECT alternative:
		
	
	The dramatic genre is presented on a stage, where actors don¿t give concrete form to characters.
	
	The dramatic genre is presented on a stage, where actors give concrete form to feelings.
	
	The dramatic genre is presented on a stage, where actors give abstract form to characters.
	
	The dramatic genre is not presented on a stage, where actors give concrete form to characters.
	 
	The dramatic genre is presented on a stage, where actors give concrete form to characters.
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	 8a Questão (Ref.: 201409022441)
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	Words are ____________________ because there is no natural resemblance between the forms of linguistic signs and their meaning.
		
	 
	arbitrary
	
	consistant
	
	sound
	
	logical
	
	reasonable
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	 9a Questão (Ref.: 201409110776)
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	Mark the option which does not present a non literary text:
		
	
	Textbooks
	
	Reports
	
	Editorials
	
	Brochures
	 
	Novels
		
	
	
	 10a Questão (Ref.: 201409110793)
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	It would be hard to imagine how to accomplish most of the things we do, even in a single day, without ---------------------.
		
	
	a car
	 
	language
	
	style
	
	literature
	
	poetry