Portuguese activity, aimed at first-year high school students, explores the punctuation marks. Period, exclamation point, colon, ellipses, comma… Are we going to study them? Then answer the various text-based questions marked to hit, written by Neusa Sorrent! Would you know, for example, to put the commas in “And that fruit bowl or better ex-fruit bowl became more patched up, than a circus tarpaulin.”? Let's go to the challenge?
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SCHOOL: DATE:
PROF: CLASS:
NAME:
Read:
Crash was a word full of funny memories.
I got a bike that was my dream. It was just going up and hitting. I ran over the sign in the garden of the parish church: DON'T CATCH FLOWERS.
I was injured for a while, limping on my left leg, suspicious. I was trying to find a way to improve my musculature and my sense of direction. And time passed...
I invented to practice weightlifting, using some iron bars I found in the garage. This time I do gym without paying for the gym.
I left my room with the magnificent invention, which I had cleaned and went to train in the backyard, where there was shade and fresh water. He didn't give another one. Passing through the room, I felt a chill. Cras! I went to beat the blessed bars in my mother's old fruit bowl, which was inherited from my grandma, who inherited the beauty of the piece from a pissy aunt…
On that sunny afternoon, God only knows, it was a rosary of tears that never ended. And rummaging through the house, looking for the glue, the masking tape. And that fruit bowl, or better ex-fruit bowl, became more patched up than a circus tarpaulin.
SORRENTI, N. “Scheduled to hit”. Belo Horizonte: Ed. Lê, 1997. P. 4-8. (Fragment).
Question 1 - In “Hitting was a word full of funny memories.”, the period closes a period that contains:
a) a prayer
b) two prayers
c) three prayers
d) no prayer
Question 2 - In the second paragraph of the text, the colon plays the role of:
a) submit a quote.
b) indicate an enumeration.
c) introduce an explanation.
d) announce a speech by the narrator.
Question 3 - The exclamation point was used after the expression “Crás!”, whose pronunciation mimics the sound of a beat. This expression is called:
a) hyperbole
b) synesthesia
c) metonymy
d) onomatopoeia
Question 4 – In the passage “And time passed...”, the ellipses signal:
a) the chain of the idea.
b) the continuation of the fact.
c) interruption of thought.
d) the interpellation made by the narrator.
Question 5 - In the part “[…] I went to train in the backyard, where there was […]”, the comma precedes a pronoun:
a) indefinite that resumes in the “backyard”.
b) personnel who return “in the backyard”.
c) relative that takes up “in the backyard”.
d) statement that takes up “in the backyard”.
Question 6 – In “On this sunny afternoon, only God […]”, the comma separates an adverbial adjunct:
a) which indicates time.
b) which indicates place.
c) which indicates mode.
d) which indicates intensity.
Question 7 – In the sentence “And I turned the house over, looking for the glue […]”, the comma precedes a verb:
a) in the form of a participle.
b) in the form of a personal infinitive.
c) in the form of a gerund.
d) in the form of an impersonal infinitive.
Question 8 – The last sentence of the text was transcribed without the commas. Check the alternative in which they were used correctly:
a) "And that fruit bowl, or better ex-fruit bowl, became more patched up, than a circus tarpaulin."
b) "And that fruit bowl, or rather, ex-fruit bowl, became more patched up than a circus tarpaulin."
c) "And that fruit bowl, or rather, ex-fruit bowl, became more patched than a circus tarpaulin."
d) "And that fruit bowl, or better ex-fruit bowl, became more patched than a circus tarpaulin."
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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