Analyse the different uses of figures of speech:I. An...

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.