Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the seventh year of elementary school, proposes the study of paroxytone words. Students are asked to identify these words, as well as the reasons that justify the accent.
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And all that rattling of tools, and the march of the forge, and the chorus of those up above drilled the rock to throw fire at it, and the deaf hooting in the distance, which came from the tenement, as if from a village alarmed; everything gave the idea of ferocious activity, of a struggle of revenge and hatred. Those men dripping with sweat, drunk with heat, mad with sunstroke, breaking, prodding, torturing the stone, seemed like a handful of demons revolted in their impotence against the impassive giant who gazed at them with contempt, unperturbed by all the blows and shots they fired at his back, leaving without a moan to open his bowels. granite.
Aluísio Azevedo, “O Cortiço”.
Question 1 - Check the sentence in which the highlighted word is paroxytone:
a) “[…] and the chorus of there on top they drilled the rock to throw fire at it […]"
b) “[…] of a fight for revenge and hate.”
c) "Those men dripping with sweat, drunks of heat […]"
d) "[…] heat stroke freaks breaking heatstroke freaks insolation to break […]"
Question 2 - Identify other words used in the text that are accented for the same reason as the paroxytone word mentioned in the previous question. Then present the rule regarding the accentuation of these words:
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Question 3 - The prefix “im” in the paroxytones “impassible” and “imperturbable” expresses the idea of:
a) inward movement
b) opposition
c) separation
d) denial
Question 4 - Why are the paroxytone words “impassive” and “imperturbable” accentuated?
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Question 5 - Point out the paroxytone word that is no longer accented according to the New Spelling:
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Question 6 – The word paroxytone has as its stressed syllable:
( ) the last syllable
( ) the penultimate syllable
( ) the third to last syllable
By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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