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Question 36 must be answered based on the following passage.

Then summer came. A summer limp with the weight of blossomed things. Heavy sunflowers weeping over fences; iris curling and browning at the edges far away from their purple hearts; ears of corn letting their auburn

hair wind down to their stalks.

Adapted from: MORRISON, Toni. Sula. Alfred A. Knopf, 1973.

In the passage above, Toni Morrison constructs meaning through complex lexical and grammatical choices characterized by

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B) the predominance of present participial adjectives, sustaining an ongoing aspect that blurs the boundary between description and process, reinforcing a perception of vitality in the inanimate.

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A) the use of attributive adjectives combined with simple determiners, exemplifying the primacy of nominal modification in literary style, privileging static description over grammatical processes.

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C) the organization of clauses through asyndetic coordination, marked by semicolons, projects fragmentation and disjunction, indicating a syntactic structure more characteristic of expository prose than of poetic discourse.

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D) the recurrence of lexical metaphors interpreted primarily as lexicalized idioms rather than active metaphoric processes, pointing to conventional usage instead of stylistic innovation.

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E) the grammatical choice of zero articles before plural nouns, reflecting a non-specific reference, more characteristic of scientific register than the literary register, highlighting objectivity in categorization.

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