SEMINÁRIOS EM LÍNGUA INGLESA DISCURSO LITERÁRIO

but not an interaction tool. This is due to the fact that literature enables people to transmit not only their knowledge, but also their culture.
	 
	is a communication and an interaction tool. This is due to the fact that literature does not enable people to transmit not only their knowledge, but also their culture.
	
	is a communication and an interaction tool. This is due to the fact that literature enables people to transmit not only their knowledge, but not their culture.
	
	 
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	 2a Questão
	
	
	
	
	All sentences below refer to the characteristics of the literary discourse BUT:
		
	
	Figurative language, such as metaphor, is used
	 
	Several levels of meaning, which are difficult to identify at first
	
	Assumed personal experience and/or cultural knowledge
	
	Complex sentences, which contain lots of details
	 
	All sentences are literal
	
	 
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	 3a Questão
	
	
	
	
	In his poetics, Aristotle defines drama as being made up of all below BUT....
		
	
	melody
	 
	dialogue with the author
	
	characters
	
	plot
	
	spectacle
	
	 
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	 4a Questão
	
	
	
	
	Read the text and answer the question: ---Genetically modified (GM) crops that exterminate pests feeding on them are no longer uncommon. One of the latest is a strain of corn genetically engineered to disrupt the expression of certain genes in the corn rootworm - a pest that devastate this important crop. This is the first time that the technique known as RNA interference has proven effective through the ingestion of RNA rather than through its injection into pests. Compared to the insect-resistant transgenic plants that produce the Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) toxin, the new strain of corn is much more specific in that it targets genes only found in a small number of species. As regards the risk to humans, the companies promoting the new crop make the dubious claim that there is no cause for concern since the RNA is broken down in the normal process of human digestion. At the very least, there is the concern about a repetition of the unpleasant allergic reactions caused by some earlier GM varieties. ---- (source: fullspate.digitalcounterrevolution.co.uk/ecpe-reading-test-4.html) In the opinion of the author, the companies marketing the new corn ....
		
	 
	may have made a misleading statement.
	
	hold the key to solving the problem of hunger.
	
	are using a pesticide over wider areas
	
	have been unfairly targetted by anti-GM campaigners.
	
	are ignorant of alternative pest management techniques.
	
	 
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	 5a Questão
	
	
	
	
	The literary term ´lyric´comes from the Greek word ´lyrikos´, which means ....
		
	
	talking to the lyre
	
	making the lyre
	 
	writing to the lyre
	 
	singing to the lyre
	
	playing the lyre
	
	 
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	 6a Questão
	
	
	
	
	Read all the alternatives and choose the one that is WRONG:
		
	
	We can conclude that the lyric genre refers to the poet¿s subjective expression, that is, his view of the world, his joy, his pain, his self-awareness and we can also conclude that he is a loner.
	 
	We can conclude that the lyric genre refers to the poet¿s subjective expression, that is, his view of the world, his joy, his pain, his self-awareness.
	
	The lyric poet is a loner, whose primary interest is in his own inner world. The external world is just an excuse for him to express what is going on inside his mind.
	
	The modern poet is well aware that his view of the world is biased and fragmented.
	 
	The modern poet is well aware that his view of the world is biased and fragmented just like the traditional poet that believes that his view is reliable and totally correct
	
	 
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	 7a Questão
	
	
	
	
	The word ´genre´arrived in English coming from:
		
	 
	Old French
	 
	Old Deutch
	
	Old German
	
	Old Spanish
	
	Old Portuguese
	
	 
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	 8a Questão
	
	
	
	
	Think about the term lyric and choose the INCORRECT alternative
		
	
	This association between word and song has given rise to the sung poetry, which remained a tradition in classical Greece until the Renaissance.
	
	Over the years, the term lyric¿hasbeenassociatedwithpoetryanditcomesomthelat∈wordlyricus.
	 
	The word lyric¿doescomesomtheLat∈wordlyricuswhichmeansof or for the lyre¿, and from the Greek word lyrikos, which means for≥t∈gthelyre¿.
	 
	a) Over the years, the term lyric¿hasbeenassociatedwithpoetry.
	
	According to the Online Etymology Dictionary, the word lyric¿comesomtheLat∈wordlyricuswhichmeansof or for the lyre¿, and from the Greek word lyrikos, which means s∈g∈g→thelyre¿.
	1a Questão
	
	
	
	Mark the only option which does not describe The Epic:
		
	
	The hero¿s courage and determination
	
	Distribution of food
	 
	Moral ideas
	
	Distribution of wealth
	 
	Material significance to historical events
	
	 
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	 2a Questão
	
	
	
	
	The Epic can be defined as, according to Abrams (1988),
		
	 
	[A long non-stanzaic] poem on a great and serious subject, told in an elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the human race.
	
	[A long non-stanzaic] poem on a great and serious subject, told in an elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends his own success, a nation, not the human race.
	
	[A long non-stanzaic] poem on a great and serious subject, told in an elevated style, and centered on apathetic individual that is not quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the human race.
	 
	[A long non-stanzaic] poem on a great and comic subject, told in an elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the human race.
	
	[A short non-stanzaic] poem on a great and serious subject, told in an elevated style, and centered on a heroic or quasi-divine figure on whose actions depends the fate of a tribe, a nation, or the human race.
	
	 
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	 3a Questão
	
	
	
	
	The Epic was indeed very lengthy, and this characteristic was due to the fact that the lengthier the poem, the more it reflected the ----------of the subject it dealt with.
		
	
	loniless
	
	tenderness
	
	simplicity
	
	loudness
	 
	magnitude
	
	 
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	 4a Questão
	
	
	
	
	The Epic is basically concerned with:
		
	 
	Moral ideals(e.g. sex, war and violence, the distribution of wealth, food and alcohol etc) and giving spiritual significance to historical events (that is, the hero¿s courage and determination, as well as the triumph of his people is divinely ordained.)
	
	Moral ideals(e.g. sex, war and violence, the distribution of wealth, food and alcohol etc) and giving spiritual significance to historical events (that is, the hero¿s cowardice , as well as the failure of his people is divinely ordained.)
	
	Moral ideals(e.g. sex, war and violence, the distribution of wealth, food and alcohol etc) and giving spiritual significance to regular events (that is, the hero¿s courage and determination, as well as the triumph of his people is divinely ordained.)
	
	Immoral ideals(e.g. sex, war and violence,