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Question 1
In contemporary textual analysis and standard Brazilian Portuguese grammar, the cohesive device that replaces a previously mentioned noun phrase with a demonstrative or relative pronoun to avoid lexical repetition while maintaining reference is known as:
Correct Answer:
Anaphora
Question 2
Which rhetorical figure is predominantly employed in the ironic statement: 'He was not exactly a champion of punctuality, arriving a mere forty-five minutes after the meeting had adjourned'?
Correct Answer:
Litotes / Euphemism
Question 3
According to standard Brazilian Portuguese syntactic rules (*regência verbal* and *crase*), which of the following sentences correctly applies the grave accent (*acento grave*)?
Correct Answer:
Os alunos assistiram à apresentação do projeto no anfiteatro da PUC-Rio.
Question 4
In Machado de Assis's masterpiece *Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas* (1881), the adoption of a 'defunto autor' (deceased author) as the first-person narrator serves primarily to:
Correct Answer:
Liberate the narrator from bourgeois social hypocrisy, allowing for cynical, unfettered moral scrutiny.
Question 5
The narrative structure of Machado de Assis's *Dom Casmurro* centers on Bento Santiago's obsessive recollection of Capitu's alleged infidelity. What narrative technique produces the central ambiguity of the novel?
Correct Answer:
An unreliable first-person narrator constructing a biased psychological reconstruction decades after the events.
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