Questões de Vestibular UERJ 2011 para Vestibular - Segundo Exame
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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:
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:
The author states that the process of eliminating the destructive by-products of the so-called “clean coal” produces emissions.
The fragment of the text in which the underlined pronoun refers to the statement above is: