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ID
1022041
Banca
IBFC
Órgão
PM-RJ
Ano
2012
Provas
Disciplina
Inglês
Assuntos

Read the following texts I and II:

I. “Michelle, I love you. The other night, I think the entire country saw just how lucky I am. Malia and Sasha, you make me so proud… but don’t get any ideas, you’re still going to class tomorrow. And Joe Biden, thank you for being the best Vice President I could ever hope for. Madam Chairwoman, delegates, I accept your nomination for President of the United States. The first time I addressed this convention in 2004, I was a younger man; a Senate candidate from Illinois who spoke about hope – not blind optimism or wishful thinking, but hope in the face of difficulty; hope in the face of uncertainty; that dogged faith in the future which has pushed this nation forward, even when the odds are great; even when the road is long.”
(Barack Obama, Democrats Convention, September 6, 2012.)

II. "'And that boy of his, Frito,' added bleary-eyed Nat Clubfoot, 'as crazy as a woodpecker, that one is.' This was verified by Old Poop of Backwater, among others. For who hadn't seen young Frito, walking aimlessly through the crooked streets of Boggietown, carrying little clumps of flowers and muttering about 'truth and beauty' and blurting out silly nonsense like 'Cogito ergo boggum?'"
(H. Beard, The Harvard Lampoon, Bored of the Rings, 1969)

Each text is, respectively, an example of

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  •  d) quotation and parody

    The first text uses direct quotation from the USA current president. As regards the second question, it can be tricky, but cogito ergo bogum means I think I don't exist, which is in itself, because it's impossible to think and at the same time to realise that one's existence is a sham, so this makes the assertion valid for this point.

    O primeiro texto é uma citação direta: o discurso do interlocutor é reproduzido diretamente ao leitor, sem ser por relatos. O segundo texto é um exemplo de paródia porque a frase     cogito ergo bogum significa "penso que não existo", em referência à famosa citação de Destartes: penso, logo existo.