Literary and Journalistic Texts: An Overview

Literary Texts

Literary language deviates from standard language to create beauty and surprise, capturing the reader’s attention. It achieves this through content, form, musicality, and literary resources. The concept of literary language emerged in the early 20th century with Russian formalism.

Features of Literary Texts

  • Functional: Focuses on aesthetic pleasure and multiple meanings.
  • Automatization and Bypass: Employs innovative language, diverging from common usage.
  • Poetic Function: Aims to produce
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Description and Dialogue in Literature: A Guide

Description in Literature

Definition

Description portrays reality, whether concrete or abstract, using words. It depicts objects, places, environments, people, processes, concepts, and emotions. Typically, descriptions are static, capturing a moment in time. However, descriptions of actions or processes can introduce dynamism.

Process

  1. Observation and Selection: The sender carefully observes and selects significant details of the subject to be described, considering the receiver’s knowledge and the intended
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Advertising and Text Cohesion

1. Text Cohesion

Textual cohesion is the property that, after several mechanisms of relationship, forms the plot and reveals the syntactic relations between the various phrases in the text.

The Mechanisms of Cohesion

Textual cohesion is achieved by applying, at the time of writing, several relationships, including the following:

  • The Lexical Relationship: This resource establishes a semantic link between two or more lexical items.
    • Repetition of a word or expression
    • Use of a synonym or an antonym to refer
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Catalan Literature: Renaissance to Modernism

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1) For the romanticism that favored the emergence of the Renaissance?


Because their preference for popular poetry, his exaltation and defense of the personality and the freedom of peoples, was a time when the Renaissance were more field conducive to raise their problems and where historic Catalan literature had its classics.

2) What other factors influenced the emergence and development of the Renaissance?

demographic expansion and improvement of farming techniques produced the first capital

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Textual Properties: Narrative, Expository, and Argumentative Texts

Descriptive Text

Painting made with words. It distinguishes the technical description from the objective or subjective description of a landscape, an object, a person, an animal, time, feelings, etc., with an aesthetic function.

Procedures and Features

  • Verb forms: The most commonly used are the present and the imperfect past.
  • Names predominate over verbs.
  • Many nouns (widely adjectival) and adjectives stimulate the senses, complementing substantive information with expressive nuance. Epithets.
  • Attributive
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Michelangelo’s David: A Renaissance Masterpiece

Michelangelo’s David

Match of the Work

This 4.10-meter tall figurative marble sculpture depicts a nude male body in all its perfection and beauty. The composition follows a zigzag line, starting with the tense, clenched hands and watchful eyes, moving up to the concentrated face with a smile and a hint of anger, framed by voluminous hair. The right leg supports the body’s weight, balancing the left leg’s forward position, initiating movement. The tense muscles, prominent arteries, and vibrant tendons

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