Questões de Vestibular UERJ 2011 para Vestibular, Inglês

According to some authors, a memoir is how one remembers one’s own life; an autobiography is history, requiring research, dates and facts.

In relation to the author’s life, the text Happiness can be characterized as a memoir especially because of the presence of:

The first paragraph describes the terrible weather, the physical state of the narrator and his unfavorable view of the village and its inhabitants.

From this beginning, one can infer that the narrator did not expect the peasants to:

In the second paragraph, Kazantzakis introduces a flashback, an interruption in the telling of the major action to show an episode that happened at an earlier time.

In this narrative, the flashback has the function of:

In the third and fourth paragraphs, there are different sensory images, as in the fragment below:

I breathed in the delicious smell of the steam rising from the pot. (l. 17 )

In this fragment, the narrator makes use of the following type of imagery:

Happiness is a domestic bird in our own courtyards. (l. 19-20)

This fragment contains a figure of speech which is labeled as: