Questão de Inglês — Interpretação de texto | Reading comprehension — CPCON 2026
InglêsInterpretação de texto | Reading comprehension
- Código
- gp021503
- Banca
- CPCON
- Órgão
- Prefeitura de Itabaiana - PB
- Ano
- 2026
- Cargo
- Professor de Língua inglesa
In the comic strip, Jon Arbuckle begins a narrative using the classic "Once upon a time" formula. However, as the story progressesinto the third panel, the tone shifts significantly. From a linguistic and literary perspective, it can be concluded that: 
- Athe primary humor of the strip is derived from the personification of the dog, who expresses verbal agreement with Jon's narrativethrough a thought bubble, showing high cognitive awareness of his past mistakes.
- Bthe use of the past tense in the first two panels ("there was," "was thin," "was happy") indicates that the characters Jon is describingare fictional entities unrelated to the three characters physically present in the scene.
- CGarfield's thought bubble in the final panel ("This sounds familiar") serves as a foreshadowing device, suggesting that the cat isbeginning to experience symptoms of déjà vu regarding a book he read in the past.
- Dthe transition between the second and third panels represents a shift from direct speech to indirect speech, used primarily to reportthe actions of the cat and dog to a third-party audience.
- Ethe comic strip employs irony and metafiction by transitioning from a traditional fairy-tale register to a mundane, domesticcomplaint, highlighting that the "story" Jon is reading is actually a literal recount of his own frustrating daily life.