Understanding Literary Genres: Lyric and Narrative Texts
Lyric Texts: Expression of Feelings
The lyric is appropriate for imitating moods and expressing feelings. Lyrical texts have the following characteristics:
- They provide a very subjective discourse, the product of internalization, where poetic emotion is prevalent.
- They do not develop a story; their content is an expression of feelings, emotions, and ideas.
- A poetic voice belongs to the fiction and is not to be identified with the author.
- They usually focus on one aspect and are generally short, which
Journalistic Subgenres: News Reporting Essentials
Main Subgenus: Journalistic Genres
General Introduction
Messages are conveyed through various journalistic genres. Each genre represents a specific structure and mode of expression, shaped by tradition and now conventionally accepted. The features distinguishing these genres are linked to the two basic functions of journalistic media: informing about current events and providing opinions on them. Accordingly, we distinguish three subgenres: news, opinion, and hybrids.
The main subgenres of news reporting
Read MoreKey Concepts in Adolescent Development and Socialization
Adolescence and Social Development: Key Concepts
Adolescence: The period between childhood and adulthood.
Socialize: Interacting with people, even those you don’t know.
The Socialization Process:
- Learn expected social behavior.
- Assume appropriate social roles.
- Develop acceptable social activities.
Cognitive Development: The adolescent development of the ability to think and reason according to the social context they’re exposed to.
Development: A progressive series of changes that occur in predictable patterns
Read MoreAncient Music: Origins, Magic, and Therapeutic Power
The Dawn of Civilization and Music
People are freed from the obligation to produce food. This situation occurs mainly in big cities, but these developments are not the same everywhere. Include:
- Mesopotamia: the Tigris and Euphrates valleys.
- China: Hoan area-Ho (Yellow River)
- Egypt: Nile alluvial valleys
- India: the Indus and its tributaries.
During this period, with polished stone tools, they can build sound tuned to a given height, a requirement for a musical civilization.
The first instruments of membranes
Read MoreAnalyzing Goya’s “The Family of Charles IV”: Style and Meaning
Technical Analysis and Formal Elements
Technical Elements
It is an oil on canvas where we emphasize the ocher and gray color for notes of red and blue tie, which are repeated. As for stroke, it prevails over the line. As for light, it is a natural light that enters the scene from the left slightly high, illuminating the figures with shadows and let the right-hand side, which cover some of the bodies figures. Referring dimensional space, the author makes from light figures as Goya woman deep feeling
Read MoreCaravaggio’s Realism: Death of the Virgin & Saint Jerome
Caravaggio’s Interpretation of Religious Themes
Figures in a painting, possibly by Berruguete, are reminiscent of a bald figure, possibly inspired by Donatello and Rustici, with a hand gesture and foot shape. The artistic lineage appears to be Florentine: Donatello, Rustici, and perhaps Berruguete.
The Death of the Virgin
This painting sparked immediate controversy and rejection. It was commissioned for Santa Maria della Scala. Renaissance depictions of the Virgin’s death (whether described as sleep