Understanding the Modern Novel: Key Features and Subgenres
Key Characteristics of the Modern Novel
The modern novel is characterized by the following features:
- Realism and Plausibility: A taste for realism or at least plausibility.
- Structural Unity: The structural unit of the various episodes, obtained through a network of anticipations and memories and the evolution of the character that determines the selection of episodes and their order.
- Ambiguity and Relativism: Ambiguity and relativism in the form of presenting and analyzing reality.
- Credible Hero: A hero,
Analyzing “The Censors”: Questions and Answers
“The Censors”: Questions and Answers
In “The Censors,” how does Juan get his first promotion after taking the job as a censor?
By betraying a fellow worker.
Which statement best sums up Juan’s career in “The Censors”?
He begins at a low level and then keeps getting promoted.
What happens to Juan at the end of “The Censors”?
He censors his own letter, getting himself in trouble, and is executed.
“The Censors” takes place in a country ruled by a dictator. What do the details and outcome
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Metric Analysis
This poem consists of thirty verses of major and minor art, being eleven and seven syllables (hendecasyllables and heptasyllables), seemingly without following any specific rules. However, it is a silva, a classical verse model characterized by a combination of 7- and 11-syllable lines with a free rhyme scheme, even allowing for unrhymed verses. In this poem, the rhyme is consonant, at least until the twenty-fourth verse, which is a single, unrhymed verse.
Rhyme is chained at least
Read MoreVocabulary Expansion: Words and Their Meanings
Vocabulary Expansion
Unwary: Simple, innocent
Beginnings: Initial, nascent, novice
Unwavering: Irrefutable, unquestionable
Unfailing: Safe, foolproof, indispensable
Harmless: Healthy, uninjured
Induce: Lead, incite
Ineffable: Wonderful, inexplicable
Inevitable: Inevitable
Unequivocal: Undoubted, indisputable
Defenseless: Abandoned, helpless
Inexcusable: Inexcusable, forced
Inexorable: Cruel, hard, indisputable
Impregnable: Invincible, unbeatable
Infaust: Unfortunate
Intimate: Implementation, punish
Impassable:
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Journalistic Articles
Introduction: The Journalistic Language
Journalism responds to the information demands of man. To meet this demand, it uses mass media or means of mass communication. There are three main functions of journalism: to inform, educate, and entertain.
Information must be reliable, firsthand, verified, directly exposed, sufficient, and objective.
Education: Daily news creates a state of opinion by providing readers with information, contrasting ideological or evaluative elements, ideas,
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Love and Death in *El amor en los tiempos del cólera*
The story’s content deals with the passage of time and love that comes in all possible ways: bright, hopeful, troubled, dark, disappointing love. This novel is a labor of love, but also of death. The fact that the work opens with a suicide and closes with the news of another is not pure chance.
Fermina Daza: The Embodiment of Love
The real engine of the love story is Fermina Daza, who embodies love and is the object of affection for the other two
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