Portuguese Activity: Figure of Speech, Prosopopeia

Portuguese activity, aimed at students in the 1st year of high school, proposes the study of figure of speech"prosopopeia" (or "personification"), through text written by Rubens Alves.

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SCHOOL: DATE:

PROF: CLASS:

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Read this fragment written by Rubem Alves:

Machines have always fascinated me. I was a 5 year old boy walking barefoot on an old abandoned farm. I liked to sit next to the monjolo, the water falling from the ditch, the rhythmic up-beat, set to music by the moaning wood, the monjolo worked nonstop, without getting tired, without complaining. For me, a monjolo was a technical prodigy: I didn't know others, but what fascinated me was not the monjolo in front of me, the finished product; he was the man who had invented the monjolo, absent. […]

Between science and wisdom: the education dilemma. São Paulo: Loyola, 2004.

Questions

Question 1 - Look up the meaning of the word “monjolo” in the dictionary. Then transcribe it:

Question 2 - There is the use of the prosopopeia figure of speech (or personification) in the following passage:

a) "Machines have always fascinated me."

b) “I was a 5-year-old boy, walking barefoot […]”

c) “[…] the monjolo worked non-stop, without getting tired, without complaining.”

d) “For me, a monjolo was a technical prodigy […]”

Question 3 - In the excerpt “[…] I didn't know others, but what fascinated me was not the monjolo in front of me […]”, the highlighted term indicates one:

the explanation

b) cause

c) comparison

d) opposition

Question 4 – In “[…] it was the man who invented the monjolo, absent.”, the tense in which the underlined verb was used suggests an action:

a) habitual in the past.

b) started in the past and continues in the present.

c) occurred in a remote past.

d) completed in the recent past.

Question 5 - Justify the use of the comma in the segment “For me, a monjolo was a technical prodigy […]”:

By Denyse Lage Fonseca – Graduated in Languages ​​and specialist in distance education.

At answers are in the link above the header.

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