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-Lyrical Genre:
- EPIC: It tells the stories of great events that have happened to the main character.
- DRAMA: Plays written through dialogue and meant to be represented. In them the author creates many conflicts
- Ode: A lyrical composition in verse about a noble topic.
- Hymn: A solemn composition that deals with patriotic feelings, as well as religious or war-themed.
- Elegy: A composition that expresses feelings of pain when faced with disgrace.
- Eclogue: A poetic composition about romantic feelings and the exaltation of nature.
- Song: It usually expresses romantic emotions.
- Satire: A composition, in verse or prose, that speaks of vices, individual or collective.
- Epigram: A quick-witted poem, generally written in verse.
- Epic poem: It tells the memorable story of the beginning of humanity or a great civilization.
- Heroic epic: It tells the stories of a national hero, and they are supposed to exalt our feelings of patriotism.
- Romance: A narration in verse which tells stories about love, knights, wars, etc.
-Rhetorical Figures: (Onomatopeya) (Metaphor).
- Anthropomorphization: to ascribe human form or attributes to (an animal, plant, material object, etc.)
- Hyperbole: obvious and intentional exaggeration.
- Elipsis: the omission from a sentence or other construction of one or more words
- Anaphora: repetition of a word or words at the beginning of two or more successive verses.
- Epiphora: repetition occurs in the last part of successive clauses and sentences.
- Motif: The unit that is repeated in visual pattern.
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-Schools:
- Preraphaelites: modernize the academy to be more “Real” to the time of Raphael.
- School of Barbizon: landscape painting.
- Millet School: Replace historical characters with the people who worked in fields.
- Courbet: artists belonged to the bourgeoise.
- its influence spread throughout Europe and eventually the United States. Its originators were artists who rejected the official, government-sanctioned exhibitions, or salons, and were consequently shunned by powerful academic art institutions.
-Modernism: refers to the broad movement in Western arts and literature that gathered pace from around 1850, and is characterised by a deliberate rejection of the styles of the past; emphasising instead innovation and experimentation in forms, materials and techniques in order to create artworks that better reflected modern society.
-Cubism:
- Analytic: an from 1908–12. Its artworks look more severe and are made up of an interweaving of planes and lines in muted tones of blacks, greys and ochres.
- Synthetic: is the later phase of cubism, generally considered to date from about 1912 to 1914, and characterised by simpler shapes and brighter colours. Synthetic cubist works also often include collaged real elements such as newspapers.
-Abstract Expressionism: developed in New York in the 1940s and 1950s. It was somehow meant to encompass not only the work of painters who filled their canvases with fields of color and abstract forms, but also those who attacked their canvases with a vigorous gestural expressionism.
-Language of Contemporary Art:
- Happening: collective movement that requires the active participation of the audience, the process is not important, what matters is the result.
- Performance: artistic show performed live before an audience in which different forms of expression such as dance, theater, music, video art and visual arts among others are combined.
- Land Art: also known Earth art. Born in America in the 1960’s with a group of sculptors and painters who decides to increase public awareness of human relationship with nature through intervention in the landscape.
- Aproppiation: its main goal can go from irony to honor an artist who deserves to be remembered.