Understanding Narrative Discourse: Key Elements & Techniques
1. Narrative Discourse: Communicative Events
1. Narrative discourse: awareness of the communicative events If the major purpose of descriptive discourse is to paint with words (cf chapter 3), the chief object of narrative discourse is to narrate, that is, to tell a story; thus, ‘tellability’ becomes the main concern of narrative discourse. In this sense, it may be suitable to emphasize from the start, that narrative discourse does not talk about a story, but rather tells a story. Telling a story
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Understanding Narrative Setting
Setting refers to the background of a narrative work. It encompasses both the way of life of the characters (their social, economic, and cultural background) and the physical location where the story unfolds.
- Spatial Setting: This refers to the physical location or environment where a literary text takes place. It includes elements such as time, place, and context, as well as the social, cultural, and historical aspects that define the environment.
- Atmospheric Setting:
Understanding the Narrative Genre and Its Forms
Defining the Narrative Genre
The narrative genre is characterized by telling real or fictitious stories (an event or series of events) that constitute a narrative distinct from the author’s personal feelings. Although it may be imaginary, literary history often draws inspiration from real-world models. This relationship between imagination and experience, between fantasy and life, gives special value to reading for the spiritual formation of the individual. Literature is responsible for bringing
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Understanding Text Types
A text is a sentence or a coherent set of statements, oral or written, which have a communicative intention.
Texts can be classified into several types, including: narrative, description, dialogue, exposition, and argumentation.
Narrative Text Features
Narration involves recounting events (sucesos) that happened to characters (personajes) in a specific time and space. Its intention can be to explain, tell, inform, or entertain. When it has an aesthetic purpose, it’s considered
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Literary Genres: Lyrical and Narrative
Lyrical Genre
Lyric: Lyrical works express the author’s intimate and personal ideas and feelings, making them subjective. Lyrical sentiments often include themes of death, melancholy, sadness, and infatuation.
Features of Lyrical Works
- Extensive use of poetic function.
- Synonymous with poetry, displaying many stylistic figures.
- Strong presence of the expressive function, manifesting feelings, visions, and emotions of the author.
- Concentration and brevity.
- Low presence
Motion Capture Driven Augmented Clothing System
Augmented Dressed Body System Controlled by Motion Capture Data
Khaled F. Hussain1, Adel A. Sewisy1 and Islam T. El-Gendy1
1Computer Science Department, Assuit University, Egypt
Abstract. Augmenting deformable surfaces like cloth and body in real video is a challenging task. This paper presents a system for cloth and body augmentation in a single-view video. The system allows users to change their cloth either by changing the color, the texture, or the whole cloth. It augments the user with virtual
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