Prefeitura de Corumbá 2018 — Questão 41 · Língua Inglesa - Compreensão e Interpretação de Texto

Instrução: As questões de números 36 a 45 referem-se ao texto abaixo.

Still I Rise

01 __ You may write me down in history

02 __ With your bitter, twisted lies,

03 __ You may trod me in the very dirt

04 __ But still, like dust, I’ll rise.

05 __ Does my sassiness upset you?

06 __ Why are you beset with gloom?

07 __ ‘Cause I walk like I've got oil wells

08 __ Pumping in my living room.

09 __ Just like moons and suns,

10 __ With the certainty of tides,

11 __ Just like hopes, springing high,

12 __ Still I'll rise.

13 __ Did you want to see me broken?

14 __ Bowed head and lowered eyes?

15 __ Shoulders falling down like teardrops,

16 __ Weakened by my soulful cries?

17 __ Does my haughtiness offend you?

18 __ Don't you take it awful hard

19 __ ’Cause I laugh like I've got gold mines

20 __ Diggin’ in my own backyard.

21 __ You may shoot me with your words,

22 __ You may cut me with your eyes.

23 __ You may kill me with your hatefulness,

24 __ But still, like air, I'll rise.

25 __ Does my sexiness upset you?

26 __ Does it come as a surprise

27 __ That I dance like I've got diamonds

28 __ At the meeting of my thighs?

29 __ Out of the huts of history's shame

30 __ I rise

31 __ Up from a past that's rooted in pain

32 __ I rise

33 __ I'm a black ocean, leaping and wide,

34 __ Welling and swelling I bear in the tide.

35 __ Leaving behind nights of terror and fear

36 __ I rise

37 __ Into a daybreak that's wondrously clear

38 __ I rise

39 __ Bringing the gifts that my ancestors gave,

40 __ I am the dream and the hope of the slave,

41 __ I rise

42 __ I rise

43 __ I rise.

Fonte: Angelou, M., & Broun, H. H. (1994). And still I rise. Jeffrey Norton Publishers.

Analyse the following statements; then answer the question.

I. In the first stanza, the speaker’s tone is humorous and patronising.

II. In the second stanza, you can find an image that shows the poet as confident.

III. In the last couple of stanzas, more seriousness is aded by the use of historical references to slavery.

Which ones are correct?