Literary Worlds, Sequences, and Textual Forms

Literary Worlds

  • Realistic: A world represented as close as possible to historical truth, considering events and effects, a time character.
  • Legendary: Realities rooted in oral tradition where villages are completely fictitious or based on historical facts.
  • Fantastic: Accounts where events occur in reality, but then supernatural events destabilize the normal order, breaking natural laws.
  • Wonderful: A fictitious universe with its own laws, featuring popular fantasy characters (fairies, ogres, goblins, witches) that do not meet everyday logic.
  • Real-Marvelous (Magical Realism): A story that creates a new realism where the man is immersed in their environment and extraordinary events occur.
  • World-Daily: A world where the rules are similar to our reality, without fabulous creatures or events that violate logic, corresponding to daily living.
  • Oniric: Content expresses dreams in the subconscious, making the reader interpret ambiguous and confusing elements. The rules do not coincide with usual logic, or characters presented with impossible events that might not have room in our reality.
  • Mythical: Origins of cultures, with superior beings explaining phenomena of universal character.

Sequence as a Criterion

  • Linear Criterion: Text ideas presented in one direction, joined one another in a string.
  • Chronological Organization: From before to after in chronological steps.
  • Cause-Consequence: Sets out a situation and its causes or background.
  • Process: Determines procedural steps.

Hyperion

  • Music: Thrash, metal, heavy, rock

Hippo

  • Fruit: Strawberry, raspberry, pear, apple

Editorial

  • Point of view

Critical

  • Approximation of a particular cultural product, with an expert opinion on the topic.

Column Article

  • Orientations and views on current issues.
  • Article: Sporadic appearance.
  • Chronic: News presentation includes valorization and information thereon were chronologically accounted.

Act Lyrics

  • Declarative: 3rd person, speaking to an external object.
  • Apostrophizes: 2nd person, to a “You”.
  • Carmina: 1st person, at “I”.

Basic Forms of Expository Text

  1. Definition
  2. Description: Responds to characteristics, circumstances, features, etc., of an object in particular. An effective description identifies features that distinguish the object from similar ones. This corresponds to particular aspects and is an objective view. Usually static.
  3. Characterization: Includes fundamental features of a humanized person or object. Includes subjective vision.
  4. Narrative: Temporal sequence of facts.
  5. Comment: Allows the expression of subjectivity of the author, making room for individual assessments and perspectives. Does not pretend to convince or persuade.

Targeting the Narrator

  • Omniscient: Zero
  • Witness / Relative: External
  • Protagonist: Internal

Topics

  • Carpe Diem: Live in the moment.
  • Locus Amoenus: A pleasant place.
  • Ubi Sunt: Asking where a loved person is.
  • Death Equals All: The uselessness of power before death.
  • Collige, Virgo, Rosas: Letter to a maiden to benefit from youth.
  • Exploration: Look to the future.
  • Retrospection: Look to the past.
  • Flash Forward: Quick glance to the future.