Questões de Vestibular UERJ 2011 para Vestibular - Segundo Exame

The fragments below share the question “What’s in a name?”:

The author of the text uses a resource that consists of borrowing from another text, published beforehand.

This resource is called:

The logical relationship between clauses establishes different notions.

An example which expresses the notion of concession is indicated in:

A euphemism is a mild, indirect or vague expression used instead of one considered offensive, harsh or blunt. It may be used to hide unpleasant or disturbing ideas.

According to the definition above, the expression “genetic engineering” can be considered a euphemism because:

He insisted that, in politics, these euphemisms are “swindles” and “perversions” left deliberately vague in order to mislead. (l. 31-33)

In the fragment above, the inverted commas are used with the following purpose:

According to the text, the use of the expression “clean coal” might infuriate ecologists.

This idea is explicit in: