Analyzing Plath’s ‘Ariel’ and Baldwin’s ‘Giovanni’s Room’
Sylvia Plath’s ‘Ariel’ and James Baldwin’s ‘Giovanni’s Room’
Sylvia Plath’s Biography and Context
Biography: Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was an American poet known for her confessional style, which delves deeply into personal experiences and psychological struggles. Plath’s life, marked by severe depression, ended in her suicide.
Historical and Literary Context: Ariel, published posthumously in 1965, is part of the confessional poetry movement of the mid-20th century. It is characterized by intense, personal
Read MoreCastilian Dialects: A Deep Dive into Varieties and Influences
Castilian Dialects: Varieties and Influences
Castilian has different dialects, categorized as historical and contemporary.
Historical Dialects
Historical dialects are varieties derived directly from Latin and primitive languages simultaneous to Castilian. These languages were absorbed by Castilian influence. There are two main historical dialects:
- Leonese: Arising in the ancient kingdom of Leon, it retains some archaic phonetic and morphological features. The Asturian Language Academy recognizes its
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland: A Literary Analysis
“Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is a novel written in 1865 by the English writer Charles Lutwidge Dodgson under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll.
Apart from being a writer, Lewis Carroll was also a mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and a photographer. He is famous for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy. This is evident throughout his most famous novel.
The story is known worldwide by adults as well as children because adults, from Carroll’s day to the present, have been captivated
Read MoreUnderstanding Text Types: Narrative, Descriptive, Argumentative, and Informative
Text Types: A Detailed Explanation
Narrative Text
The narrative is a type of text that includes factual or fictional stories. When analyzing narrative texts, it’s necessary to study the story, the actions that compose it, the characters involved, the time and space where it develops, how these elements are arranged, and the point of view from which it’s told. Narratives, especially in literary texts, are often interwoven with dialogue and description, resulting in complex texts with different sequences.
Relative Pronouns, Word Types, and Text Types
Relative Pronouns
- To which
- Which
- Who (for persons)
- That
- As
Word Types
Determinatives
Classes of determinatives:
- Definite articles (the) and indefinite articles (a, an)
- Demonstratives (this, that, these, those)
- Possessives (my, your, his, her, its, our, their)
- Quantifiers (much, little, no, too, enough, another)
- Numbers (one, two, three, four… first, second…)
- Interrogative and exclamatory words (what, how)
Pronouns
Pronouns replace a noun phrase (NP).
Types of pronouns:
- Personal pronouns (me, you, he, she, it,
Language Varieties and Linguistic Diversity
Text Types and Discourse Genres
Text Types:
- Narrative: Account; Narrator: Omniscient, objective.
- Descriptive: Scientific or literary description.
- Expository: Divulgative or specialized.
- Argumentative: Argument, thesis, topic, exposition, conclusion; persuasive argument.
Discourse Genres:
- Humanistic texts
- Newspaper articles
- Technical-scientific texts
- Legal texts
- Literary texts
Matching
- Transmitter / receiver: Universal (book) / collective (newspaper)
- Channel
- Textual Polyphony
- Language Functions:
- Appellative
- Expressive
- Metalinguistic
- Poetic
- Phatic
- Representative
- Register: