Questão Q3923666 - Língua Inglesa

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Para responder às questões 31 a 40, leia o texto abaixo. Ennui (In) Clark Ashton Smith In the alcove whose curtains are cloth-of-gold, andwhose pillars are fluted sapphire, reclines theemperor Chan, on his couch of ebony set with opalsand rubies, and cushioned with the furs of unknownand gorgeous beasts. With implacable and wearygaze, from beneath unmoving lids that seem carvenof purple-veined onyx, he stares at the crystalwindows, giving upon the infinite fiery azures of atropic sky and sea. Oppressive as nightmare, aformless nameless fatigue, heavier than any burdenthe slaves of the mines must bear, lies forever at hisheart: all deliriums of Love and wine, the agonizingecstasy of drugs, even the deepest and the faintestpulse of delight or pain-all are proven, all are futile,for the outworn but insatiate emperor. Even for a newgrief, or a subtler pang than any felt before, he thinks,lying on his bed of ebony, that he would give thesilver and vermilion of all his mines, with the crowdedcaskets, the carcanets and crowns that lie in his mostimmemorial treasure-vault, Vainly, with the verse ofthe more inventive poets, the fanciful purple-threaded fabrics of the subtlest looms, the unfamiliargems and minerals from the uttermost land, the pallidleaves and blood-like petals of a rare and venomousblossom-vainly, with all these, and many strangerdevices, wilder, more wonderful diversions, theslaves and sultanas have sought to alleviate the ironhours. One by one he has dismissed them with aweary gesture. And now, in the silence of the heavilycurtained alcove, he lies alone, with the canker ofennui at his heart, like the undying mordant worm atthe heart of the dead.Fonte: http://www eldritchdark.com/writings/prose-poetry-plays/13/ennui-%28in%29 In the sentence he has dismissed them with a weary gesture (/ 28-29), identify the tense, aspect, and mood ofthe verb phrase, considering its retrospective function within the narrative. Mark the CORRECT alternative.

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Present Perfect tense, perfective aspect, indicative mood, signaling the resultant state of a completed action with relevance to the narrative's present reference frame.

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Present Simple tense, imperfective aspect, indicative mood, foregrounding habitual or generic action within the narrative continuum.

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Past Continuous tense, progressive aspect, indicative mood, emphasizing an ongoing, durative process contemporaneous with a past narrative juncture.

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Past Perfect tense, perfective aspect, subjunctive mood, indicating a counterfactual or irrealis scenario anterior to another past event within the embedded narrative sequence.

In the sentence he has dismissed them with a weary gesture (/ 28-29), identify the tens...