Literary Genres: Narrative, Lyric, and Dramatic

Literary Genres

G. Lyric

Basic elements: the subjectivity of the issuer, the expressive function characteristic of the genre, the poetic function of literary creation, and the use of verse.

Essential manifestations:

  • Oda: Lyric tone and variety of meters, high subjects.
  • Anthem: Solemn tone poem focused on the praise of a person or event.
  • Song: Poem expressing different emotions.
  • Idyll: Poem showing feelings of pastors.
  • Epistle: Poem offering confidence, in letter form, on doctrinal issues.
  • Elegy: Poem reflecting feelings about the death of someone.
  • Epigram: Poem that expresses an ingenious thought.
  • Letrilla: Short, loving poem organized into stanzas and chorus.
  • Romance: Short poem, no nature, strophic, lyric, or love.
  • Carol: Poetic composition, popular or learned, on miscellaneous subjects.
  • Madrigal: Poem whose last verses are lovely.

G. Narrative

The narrative recounts truthful or fictional events.

Basics: Use a process of conscious manipulation of reality, using appropriate resources that promote the fiction and selected structural elements more suited to the reality that the writer conveys.

Essential manifestations:

  • Epic: Long poem for song, collective creation, which tells heroic actions of a people.
  • Epic Poem: Long poem for song, exalting deeds of national heroes.
  • Cantar de Gesta: Medieval epic poem, for song, which tells achievements of local heroes.
  • Romance: Short poem, in oral and collective authorship, typical of the Hispanic tradition.
  • Fiction: Narrative prose, extensive, fictional subject that relates facts about characters and analyzes behavior and attitudes.
  • Story: Short story and case action, condensed imagery that comes from oral tradition.
  • Legend: Traditional short story to tell fantastic events.

G. Dramatic

Dramatic speech reflects a reality created to be performed before an audience. This characteristic of the genre requires, in the act of creative, stylistic action and stage: the playwright, by giving voice to the characters, makes the act of writing an act of oral communication to which he adds gestures and movements codes stage.

Essential manifestations:

  • Trailer: Dramatic work in which a high-profile case faces invincible forces and achieves catharsis in the viewer.
  • Drama: Dramatic text, conflict less rigid than tragedy.
  • Comedy: Dramatic text that represents the lighter side of reality with everyday actions and a happy ending.
  • Auto Sacramental: Religious-themed dramatic text and allegorical characters, which has and finally the celebration of the Eucharist.
  • Entremés: Dramatic short work of comic character and celebrities that seeks to amuse the viewer.
  • Sainete: Comic book characters and popular environment, at events, represents an independent function.
  • Farce: Comic stage play, exaggerates the action or the characters’ grotesque characters to make way.
  • Vaudeville: Romantic comedy, slight and evasive with a complicated plot, which bases the action in misunderstandings, wit, and humor.
  • Opera: Composed for the play, singing, and musical accompaniment.
  • Zarzuela: Light and popular drama in alternating recitation, music, and singing.
  • Operetta: A kind of opera, frivolous and cheerful affair, with some part recited.
  • Magazine: Theatrical character, frivolous, alternating, offline, dialogue, and music items.

Caracas. L. Literary -> Scientific Communication

  • Reference: Actually observable and verifiable character.
  • Message: Referential function, value, and denotative meaning is unambiguous.
  • Expression: Precision and plain language.
  • Creation: It captures information object and is exhausted in the first reading.

Literary Language

  • R: Fiction universe, conceived as an autonomous, self-referential as a whole.
  • M: Poetic function and elements, plurisignificativos, connotative value.
  • E: Signs, evocative and complex relationships between content and form.
  • C: Is captured as experience and information is enriched by successive readings.

Value Specifies Leng Lite

  • Lyric: Expression of “I” in person. Exclamatory tone, appeals, and evaluative adjectives. Phonic repetition, expressive resources, morphosyntactic and semantic. Verse as a form of expression.
  • Theatre: Dialogue, exclusively verbal expression. Une oral language and visual gestural code. Conflicts focus characters.
  • Narrative: Verbal style, with a history of actions. Alternate modes of expression, with morphosyntactic features of their own. Emergence of a narrator who recounts and gives life to the characters. Paced.
  • Educational: Common features of the exhibition and argumentation.

G. Literary

Lyric

  • Character: Investigates and analyzes the feelings of the issuer.
  • Position Transmitter: It is through the “me” lyric.
  • Reality Recreated: It is internalized by a subjective treatment. It is a world inspired by emotion and feelings, the facts. The message is known by reading or by oral transmission. Their subjects are human impulses or emotions.
  • Interpretation: Has many meanings: raises interpretations.

Narrative

  • C: External events relate to the issuer.
  • PE: Controls invented story and adventures.
  • RR: Occurs mediated by the issuer. Shows the development of a story that appears to be a fictional universe in which you install the reader and the viewer. “Lyric.” Their issues are images, reality.
  • I: Offers significant unit: it has only one meaning, depending on the action.

Drama

  • C: Build a direct presence in reality and which the issuer is absent.
  • PE: Not shown directly: the show is recreated without intermediaries between spectator and reality.
  • RR: Shown through the words and the presence of physical characters. “Narrative.” The facts are before the spectator. Their subjects are a reality to the viewer.
  • I: “Narrative”.