Understanding Description and Narrative in Literature
The Description
A description is a detailed explanation of how certain people, places, or objects are ordered. There are two types of description: static (arranged in space) and dynamic (events that happen with regard to the facts).
Technical Description
A technical description involves:
- Observation: Considering everything that is going to be described and what elements make it up.
- Choice: Choosing only the most significant elements to describe.
- Structuring: Determining the order in which the elements
Expository Structures, Literary Realism, and Notable Spanish Authors
The Exhibition
It is a mode of discourse that explains and develops an idea or set of ideas. Its purpose is informative, and its dominant function is representative, derived from the aim of expanding the receiver’s knowledge.
Expository Structures
- Introduction: Establishes the issue and makes considerations about the method.
- Development: Reproduces the ideas.
- Conclusion: Formulates the final thesis in summary form, as a result of the development.
Inductive Method
From experience and observation of different
Read MoreLove and Death: An Analysis of a Tragic Romance
**Love and Death**
**Internal Structure**
We can divide the romance into three moments. First, the initial situation and the arrival of Death, including the first dialogue between Love and Death. This is where Love is advised that one hour of life will be subtracted. The second moment is the fight for life, the time that Love tries to avoid Death or just wants to live life in the best way. Finally, the third moment is the second appearance of Death, the end of Love’s time.
**The Beginning**
The romance
Read MoreUnderstanding Narrative: Elements of a Novel
A novel, a prose narrative, is often more extensive than a short story. It features a complex plot, well-developed characters, and detailed environments within an autonomous and imaginary world.
1. The Point of View
The narrator recounts the story from a particular perspective, introducing characters, placing them in a specific time and space, and revealing their thoughts and behaviors.
2. Types of Narrator
- 1st Person Narrator: The narrator is involved in the story.
- Narrator-Protagonist: The main character
Understanding Communication: Statement, Enunciation, and Language Functions
The Statement
In communication and the transmission of information between a sender and a receiver, data about the participants and the situation they are in is also included. The statement would be what is said, the communication message, while the statement presents the ways in which this can be said. According to Benveniste, the statement is the particular way we use the language we speak. The speaker is positioned in a place while positioning the receiver.
Thus, we must distinguish that the issuer
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Confessions and Realities
Confession made.
Painful truth (prize class).
DC, haven’t properly picked up.
Hear you ask, why did I drop?
Tiger parents – the pure reason why dust collects.
Why confess? Don’t want my child to be misplaced, it’s a very real issue.
Asians, our children must live life, fall on their knees, in the real world.
Fast forward to the issue, Western Female, Social Studies dominant, reluctant.
Certainly fierce competition, churning out hundreds, even in the real estate bubble, to get into
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