Property Easements Explained: Rights and Responsibilities
Easement of Way
The owner of a farm nestled among others, and at the end of a public road, is entitled to require passage through neighboring estates, after providing corresponding compensation. This passage must be established in the least harmful way to the servient estate and where the distance from the dominant estate to the public road is shortest. The width of that passage will be sufficient.
Easement for Material Passage
If, to build or repair a building, materials must be transported across
Read MoreUnderstanding Narrative Discourse: Key Elements & Techniques
1. Narrative Discourse: Communicative Events
1. Narrative discourse: awareness of the communicative events If the major purpose of descriptive discourse is to paint with words (cf chapter 3), the chief object of narrative discourse is to narrate, that is, to tell a story; thus, ‘tellability’ becomes the main concern of narrative discourse. In this sense, it may be suitable to emphasize from the start, that narrative discourse does not talk about a story, but rather tells a story. Telling a story
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Understanding Narrative Setting
Setting refers to the background of a narrative work. It encompasses both the way of life of the characters (their social, economic, and cultural background) and the physical location where the story unfolds.
- Spatial Setting: This refers to the physical location or environment where a literary text takes place. It includes elements such as time, place, and context, as well as the social, cultural, and historical aspects that define the environment.
- Atmospheric Setting:
Understanding the Narrative Genre and Its Forms
Defining the Narrative Genre
The narrative genre is characterized by telling real or fictitious stories (an event or series of events) that constitute a narrative distinct from the author’s personal feelings. Although it may be imaginary, literary history often draws inspiration from real-world models. This relationship between imagination and experience, between fantasy and life, gives special value to reading for the spiritual formation of the individual. Literature is responsible for bringing
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Understanding Text Types
A text is a sentence or a coherent set of statements, oral or written, which have a communicative intention.
Texts can be classified into several types, including: narrative, description, dialogue, exposition, and argumentation.
Narrative Text Features
Narration involves recounting events (sucesos) that happened to characters (personajes) in a specific time and space. Its intention can be to explain, tell, inform, or entertain. When it has an aesthetic purpose, it’s considered
Read MoreLiterary Genres: Lyrical and Narrative Analysis
Literary Genres: Lyrical and Narrative
Lyrical Genre
Lyric: Lyrical works express the author’s intimate and personal ideas and feelings, making them subjective. Lyrical sentiments often include themes of death, melancholy, sadness, and infatuation.
Features of Lyrical Works
- Extensive use of poetic function.
- Synonymous with poetry, displaying many stylistic figures.
- Strong presence of the expressive function, manifesting feelings, visions, and emotions of the author.
- Concentration and brevity.
- Low presence