Text Interpretation: Appeal

Activity of text interpretation, aimed at students in the eighth year of elementary school, about the appeal. In "come home lady please.”, to which Lady does the narrator address? Why do you appeal to her? Let's get to know this story? So, read the text carefully Appeal, written by Dalton Trevisan. Then answer the various interpretative questions proposed!

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Carefully read the text. Then answer the various interpretive questions:

Appeal

Tomorrow the Lady has been away from home for a month. The first few days, to tell the truth, I didn't miss it, it's good to be late, forgotten in the corner conversation. It wasn't an absence for a week: lipstick still on handkerchief, plate on the table by mistake, the glimpse in the mirror.

With the days, Madam, the milk for the first time has curdled. The news of his loss came slowly: the pile of newspapers there on the floor, nobody kept them under the stairs. The whole house was a deserted corridor, and even the canary was silent. So as not to be weak, ah, Lady, I went drinking with friends. One o'clock at night and they were gone and I was alone, unforgiving of their presence to all the day's afflictions, like the last light on the porch.

And I started to miss the little fights over the seasoning in the salad − my way of wanting it. Is it missing, Lady? By their violets, at the window, I spared no water and they wither. I don't have a button on my shirt, I put on the pierced sock. What happened to the corkscrew? None of us know, without the Lady, how to talk to others: angry mouths chewing. Come home, Lady, please.

TREVISAN, Dalton. “Mysteries of Curitiba”. 5th ed. Rio de Janeiro: Record, 1996.

Questions

Question 1 - In “First days, to tell you the truth, I didn't miss it, it's good to be late, forgotten in the corner conversation.”, the narrator:

( ) criticizes the Lady.

( ) makes a complaint to the lady.

( ) makes a confession to the Lady.

Question 2 - In the segment "The news of her loss came slowly […]", the underlined expression could be replaced by:

( ) gradually.

( ) incessantly.

( ) sporadically.

Question 3 - The narrator exposes the facts that made the Lady's absence not felt, in a certain period of time. Identify them:

Question 4 - In the fragment “With the days, Madam, the milk has curdled for the first time.”, the term “Mrs.” plays the role of:

( ) subject.

( ) I bet.

( ) vocative.

Question 5 - In prayer “[…] no one you kept it under the stairs.”, the highlighted pronoun was used to resume:

Question 6 – In the passage "Not to be weak, ah, Madam, I went drinking with friends.”, the underlined excerpt expresses:

( ) the narrator's way of drinking with friends.

( ) the purpose of the narrator going drinking with friends.

( ) the consequence of the narrator going drinking with friends.

Question 7 – In the period “To your violets, in the window, I spared no water and they wither.”, the conjunction “and” has value:

( ) additive.

( ) alternative.

( ) adversative.

Question 8 – In the part “None of us knows, without you, to talk to others: angry mouths chewing.”, the colon introduces a fact:

( ) which explains the previous fact.

( ) which contradicts the previous fact.

( ) which complements the previous fact.

Question 9 – The narrator ends the text with:

( ) an appeal to you.

( ) an order to the Lady.

( ) a piece of advice to you.

By Denyse Lage Fonseca

Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

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