(Originais Teachy 2023) - Question Medium of English

The naturalistic prose incorporates conceptions generated by scientism and determinism. In the excerpt, the scene of torture of Bom Crioulo reproduces these conceptions expressed by the work.

Whether day or night, what does it matter, everything makes me smile. Dead tree and yet, still blooming. - Carlos Drummond de Andrade Considering the excerpt above, from the poem 'Dead Tree' by Carlos Drummond de Andrade, answer the following questions: 1) Identify a lexical substitution present in the excerpt and explain how it contributes to the construction of the poem's meaning. 2) How do you imagine this excerpt could be rewritten in a colloquial register of spoken language? Highlight the main differences between the original version and your rewritten version.

Sometimes in English, we want to say that something is not true or that we don't have something. For example, if I have a pencil and I want to say that I don't have an eraser, I can use a negative form. Look at this sentence: 'I have an apple.' If I don't have an apple, I can change the sentence to the negative form like this: 'I don't have an apple.' Now, imagine you have a dog and you want to say that it's not small. How would you write this in English, using the negative form? Write a complete sentence explaining that your dog is not small. Remember to use the word 'not' in your sentence.

Excerpt from the poem 'Sonnet of Fidelity', by Vinicius de Moraes: 'May it not be immortal, since it is flame. But may it be infinite while it lasts.' Considering the above excerpt and your knowledge of linguistic varieties, reflect on the treatment pronouns in the Portuguese language: a) Taking the poem 'Sonnet of Fidelity' as an example, write a sentence replacing the pronoun 'que' with 'tu' and 'vós', in order to maintain the original meaning of the sentence. b) Explain the difference between 'tu' and 'vós' and how treatment pronouns can influence the formality of a text.