Seminários em língua inglesa

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Seminários em língua inglesa: Discurso literário
	
	Chronology is a quite important characteristic found in literary texts. According to that, choose the alternative that is WRONG in relation to this feature.
		
	
	a. The element of chronology is significant because the times present, past and future can be used to serve greater purposes than cause and effect, before and after sequencing of events.
	
	Chronology may be used to explore a wider range of associated events and relationships
	
	Chronology can either develop unity or create fragmentation; it can be cohesive or it can disrupt and disturb.
	
	The element of chronology is significant because the times present, past and future can be used to serve greater purposes than cause and effect, before and after sequencing of events.
	 
	Chronology can only be cohesive. It can never disrupt and disturb the inner structure of the text.
	
	
	After reading a good book ¿ a literary work - readers get transformed. The benefits of reading a literary work are countless and undeniable. Analyze the alternatives below and choose the alternative that DOES NOT reflect the previous statements.
		
	 
	After reading a literary text readers will end up with a quite limited understanding of life and human beings.
	
	People also feel deeply enriched by a particular kind of knowledge.
	
	People constitute a richer and more coherent understanding of life and human beings.
	
	The reading of literary texts allows the development of intelligence in multiple instances
	
	People usually feel different in a positive way.
	
	According to our studies, Spencer-Oatley (2012) provided some key caracteristics of culture. Choose the INCORRECT option:
		
	
	Culture is shared by some sort of social group or society.
	
	Culture is manifested at different layers of depth.
	 
	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.
	
	There is no such thing as a HIGH or LOW culture. Cultures are either similar or different from each other.
	
	Em relação à importância da literatura para o desenvolvimento do ser humano, podemos dizer que:
		
	
	a literatura deforma o raciocínio humano, pois o aliena em relação à realidade.
	
	a literatura deforma o reciocínio humano, pois é incapaz de revelar um diálogo com a realidade.
	
	a literatura deforma o raciocínio humano, pois o normalmente trabalha com o reforço de idéias preconceituosas.
	 
	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 permite unicamente que se constitua uma visão pessoal sobre a realidade..
	
	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:
		
	
	Each purpose can be known as a language function.
	
	A lot of what we say is for a specific 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.
	 
	Whether we are apologizing, expressing a wish or asking permission, we can not use language in order to fulfill that purpose.
	
	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¿.
	
	
	Which set of the words best completes the text? ...... literature is ´mimetic´, that is to say, re-presents '________________', 'nature', or 'the way things are'. It portrays moral and other ______________________ in a compelling, concrete, immediately felt way through its ________________ devices and powers, yet allows as well for reflection, for a theorizing or reconsideration of the experiences evoked, as we are both 'experiencing' the _____________ evoked and are separated from it.
		
	
	world - experiences - aesthetic - reality
	
	reality - experiences - world - aesthetic
	
	aesthetic - experiences - reality - world
	
	esperiences - reality - world - aesthetic
	 
	reality - experiences - aesthetic - world
	
	Choose the alternative that refer to literary text
		
	 
	A literary text is a written work, generally a narrative, that is seen as a worthwhile body of work. Seen differently by different theorists, literary texts are works of literature that convey a message
	
	A literary text is a written work, generally a narrative, that is seen as a worthwhile body of work. Seen differently by different theorists, literary texts are works of literature that do not convey a message
	
	A literary text is a written work, generally a narrative, that is seen as a worthwhile body of work. Seen equally by theorists, literary texts are works of literature that convey a message
	
	A literary text is a written work, generally a list, that is seen as not worthwhile body of work. Seen differently by different theorists, literary texts are works of literature that convey a message
	
	A literary text are onlyoral works, generally a narrative, that is seen as a worthwhile body of work. Seen differently by different theorists, literary texts are works of literature that convey a message
	
	
	All sentences below refer to the characteristics of the literary discourse BUT:
		
	 
	All sentences are literal
	
	Assumed personal experience and/or cultural knowledge
	
	Figurative language, such as metaphor, is used
	
	Several levels of meaning, which are difficult to identify at first
	
	Complex sentences, which contain lots of details
	The Epic can be defined as, according to Abrams (1988),
		
	
	[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.
	
	[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 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.
	
	Choose the alternative that is CORRECT:
		
	
	Literature is about life, and as such, it engages readers in an intricate and elaborate set of emotional, intellectual and social considerations. It does so by using language, images and symbols, among others, in a complex and subtle form. Literature represents society, people, and the world, and the more literature we read, the less open we are to its effects.
	
	Literature is about life, and as such, it engages readers in an intricate and elaborate set of emotional, intellectual and social considerations. It does so by using language, images and symbols, among others, in a simple and obvious shallow form. Literature represents society, people, and the world, and the more literature we read, the more open we are to its effects.
	
	Literature is about life, and as such, however it does not engages readers in an intricate and elaborate set of emotional, intellectual and social considerations. It does so by using language, images and symbols, among others, in a complex andsubtle form. Literature represents society, people, and the world, and the more literature we read, the more open we are to its effects.
	 
	Literature is about life, and as such, it engages readers in an intricate and elaborate set of emotional, intellectual and social considerations. It does so by using language, images and symbols, among others, in a complex and subtle form. Literature represents society, people, and the world, and the more literature we read, the more open we are to its effects.
	
	Literature is not about life, and as such, it engages readers in an intricate and elaborate set of emotional, intellectual and social considerations. It does so by using language, images and symbols, among others, in a complex and subtle form. Literature represents society, people, and the world, and the more literature we read, the more open we are to its effects.