Literary Text Analysis: Characteristics, Genres, and Narrative Elements
Literary Text: Aesthetic Purpose and Characteristics
Rhetoric in literary text: pursues an aesthetic purpose. Its characteristics differentiate it from other types of text because the language is not primarily functional or communicative.
- Sender: Expresses their personality as an author, as a creator. Themes are often subjective, generally real but sometimes fantastic, and personally interpreted.
- Receiver: The public reader. Reading is a personal opinion and appreciation of the text.
- Message: The result
Understanding Grammatical Categories: Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs
Grammatical Categories: Nouns, Adjectives, and Verbs
Determinants
The determinant is a grammatical category that functions as a noun modifier. It is an important element of cohesion as it agrees in gender and number with the noun.
Demonstrative Determinants
Demonstrative determinants (this, that, these, those) indicate closeness or distance in time or space. Formally, they are variable-unchangeable. Functionally, they are determinants. Semantically, they indicate proximity, remoteness, and anaphoric
Read MoreEnglish Phonetics: Consonants and Allophonic Variations
Consonant Production
Homorganic Nasal Assimilation
In English, if a nasal and an oral stop belong to the same syllable or if the nasal is in a stressed syllable, the oral stop influences the preceding nasal consonant. The nasal assimilates to the place of articulation of the following consonant, resulting in both sounds sharing the same place of articulation.
Close Vowels
Close vowels have a limited degree of mouth opening, such as the high vowel /i/.
/b/ Production
Air expelled from the lungs vibrates
Read MoreUnderstanding Drama and Theater: Key Characteristics
Characteristics of Drama and Theater
We can define theater as the macrosystem in which the message is not required reading as with the novel but is supported in other languages besides the verbal and the iconic, gestural, musical, etc.
Key Elements of Theatrical Text
The Action:
The existence of a conflict, issue, or matter of discussion and interpretation.
Structure:
Divided into internal and external structure:
Internal Structure:
Formed by acts and scenes. Each act is a part where the action is divided,
Nations, Economies, and the Byzantine Empire: A Historical Analysis
States: Political and Legal Aspects
Political and legal states are organizations where people, under the condition of citizens, are subject to its laws. Profit vendors also have rights protected by these same laws.
Economic Sectors
- Primary: Mining, agriculture, livestock
- Secondary: Industry and construction
- Tertiary: Health, transportation, trade, consumption
Country Developments
- GDP
- High per capita income
- Dedicated to the tertiary sector
- The state guarantees health and pension benefits
- Great technological
Accounting Meeting Invitation & Complaint Resolution
Accounting Department Meeting Invitation
TO: Accounting Team
FROM: Dayana Chasi
SUBJECT: Invitation to Monthly Departmental Meeting
Organizer: Dayana Chasi
Date: 22 March
Start Time: 10:00
End Time: 12:00
Location: Room 28 (3rd floor conference room)
Title: Monthly Departmental Meeting
Message:
Hi everyone,
Our monthly departmental meeting will be a little later because the head of accounting will arrive late from a previous meeting.
It is very important that the entire accounting team attend, as we will explain
Read MoreIndividual Entrepreneur vs. Limited Company: Key Differences
Individual Entrepreneur vs. Limited Company
Individual Entrepreneur: An individual entrepreneur can be of legal age or an emancipated minor, or a disabled minor represented by their legal representatives. The individual entrepreneur’s liability is unlimited. If only one person exercises the activity, the following considerations must be taken into account:
- Real estate owned by the employer and spouse.
- Assets acquired during the business activity.
- Separate property of the spouse is only affected with
Franco’s Spain: A Deep Dive into the Dictatorship (1939-1975)
Franco’s Spain (1939-1975)
Key Aspects of the Franco Regime
1. Franco’s Ideology
Franco’s regime was military, nationalist, conservative, and deeply Catholic, staunchly opposing communism.
2. Core Features of Francoism
Franco’s dictatorship can be summarized by these main points:
- Dictatorship: The 1931 Constitution was repealed, eliminating human rights, free elections, regional autonomy, minority languages (Catalan, Basque, Galician), and the separation of powers. Franco controlled all three branches
Enhance Corporate Reputation & Viral Marketing Strategies
Corporate Reputation Improvement Plan
1. Tools
- Google Alerts
- RSS Feeds
- Social Media Internal Search Engines
- Search Engines: Google, Yahoo…
- Blog Search Engines
- Monitoring Tools: Trackur, etc.
2. Choosing Words to Monitor
- Company Name
- Name of Subsidiary Companies
- Brand Name
- Names of Products and Services
- Company, Brand, and Product Slogans
- Sector Name
- Names of Partners and Shareholders
- Names of Company Directors
- Names of Important Employees
3. Life Cycle of an Opinion
- It begins with a user experience (positive or
Catalan Literature After the Spanish Civil War: Authors & Themes
Catalan Literature After the Spanish Civil War
The political changes that began in 1939 aimed to replace all minority languages, including Catalan, with Castilian Spanish. The public use and official teaching of Catalan were banned, forcing intellectuals into exile. Some died, but most returned after 1939. Novels in Catalan slowly reappeared, though censorship continued. Works published until the early 1960s often avoided direct depictions of reality, using symbolism and myth. In the Valencian region,
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