Portuguese activity, aimed at ninth grade students, aims to study the adverbs. These are words that modify the meaning of verbs, adjectives or adverbs, indicating different circumstances! Circumstances of time, place, mode, intensity… Let's analyze them in the text lunar eclipse, by Cecília Meireles? So, answer the various questions proposed!
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For there, in the middle of the night, the Moon. It really is a silver lake, with vague gray shadows – shadows of trees, boats, water birds… The sky is very clear, and the shine of the stars is pure. But soon the eclipse will take place.
And then, little by little, the luminous outline is disturbed by darkness. The Earth, this mysterious abode of ours, is projecting its shape in that round mirror. Very slowly the black spot rises over that shimmering light. It is even a dragon of darkness that is calmly drinking that water so clear; devouring, petal by petal, that tranquil flower.
And the globe of the Moon, at a given moment, looks purple, bloody, like a blood vessel. What a singular metamorphosis, and what a sad symbol! There we see the Earth, melancholy reproduced in the dim clarity of the Moon. There we are, with these struggles, these evils, ambitions, angers, blood. There we are projected! And we could think, for a moment, of the bitter shadow that we are. Immense shadow. Blood stain. (Why do we insist on being like this?)
Ah! – but the eclipse passes. The Moon is recovered, brighter than ever. It even looks purified.
(Will we shine one day also with the greatest brightness? Will we lose this weight of darkness forever?)
Cecília Meireles. “Choose Your Dream”. Record: Rio de Janeiro, 1996.
Question 1 - There is an adverb in the period:
a) "For there is, in the middle of the night, the Moon."
b) “Ah! – but the eclipse passes.”
c) "It even looks purified."
d) "Are we going to shine one day with the greatest brightness too?"
Question 2 - In the period identified above, the adverb indicates:
in time
b) place
c) middle
d) statement
Question 3 - In the opening paragraph of the text, the adverb “very” intensifies the meaning of an adjective that characterizes:
a) "the Moon"
b) "The sky"
c) “the shine of the stars”
d) "the eclipse"
Question 4 – In the text, the adverb “calmly” expresses:
a) the way a dragon of darkness drinks that water.
b) how long a dragon of darkness will drink that water.
c) the place where a dragon of darkness goes drinking that water.
d) the intensity with which a dragon of darkness drinks that water.
Question 5 - Check the sentence in which the adverb was correctly classified in parentheses:
a) “very slowly the black spot goes up […]” (intensity)
B) "There we are designed!” (affirmation)
c) "The Moon is recovered, brighter than Never.” (denial)
d) “We will lose to ever this weight of darkness?" (time)
Question 6 – In the sentence indicated in the previous question, the adverb modifies the meaning of:
a) an adjective
b) an adverb
c) a verb
d) a noun
Question 7 – In the excerpt “What a singular metamorphosis, and what a sad symbol!”, the “what” is:
a) a relative pronoun
b) an interrogative pronoun
c) an integral conjunction
d) an adverb of intensity
Question 8 – In “There we see the Earth, melancholy reproduced in the dim clarity of the Moon.”, the underlined adverb adds a circumstance in a way to a participle that expresses:
a) an action
b) a state
c) an attribute
d) a way of being
Per Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages and specialist in distance education.
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