Art

SAN MARTÍN DE TERUEL:
The film presents an architecture building, specifically the outside of a tower called San Martin de Teruel S. XIV, and that the characteristics I describe we know it belongs to the Gothic-Mudejar Spanish courtier, of a religious nature and that part of the church said De Leon.
As we can see on the outside of the tower is used poor materials such as brick or geometric arrangement of glazed ceramic Nasrid colors. Arabic is the geometric ornaments through the use of gypsum.

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Analysis

Syntactic Analysis

* To analyze a sentence syntactically, we first find the verb and you are asked “Who? performs the action of the verb. What answer is the subject and the predicate else automatically.

Subject phrase

The subject phrase consists of:

* Nucleus (N) * is always a noun, pronoun or infinitive.

* Determinant (det.) * is any kind of decisive: article, possessive, the infinitive, demonstration etc. And go with the name.

* Attachment (Adg.) * is an adjective that goes with the name.

* Apposition

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Literary figures

ad hominem argument: From the Latin meaning “to or against the man,” this is an argument that appeals to emotion rather than reason,to feeling rather than intellect. 
allegory: The device of using character and/or story elements symbolically to represent an abstraction in addition to the literal meaning. In some of these, for example, an author may intend the characters to personify an abstraction like hope or freedom. The meaning usually deals with moral truth or a generalization about human existence.
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Idioms

Of means: having substantial resources; wealth 
 Custom: a traditional and widely accepted way of behaing or doing something that is specific to a particular society, place or time 
 Wealthy: having a great deal of money, resources, or assets; rich 
 Landed grentry: members of the aristocracy who owned much land 
 Burden: a wooden case used for transporting goods 
 Chance: a possibility of something happening 
 To last: continue for a specified period of time 
 To undertake: commit oneself
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The saussurean theory of language and its influence on a literary theory

Ferdinand de Saussure – Swiss linguist, a founder of modern structural linguistcs.
An attempt to apply to literature his methods and insights laid down in “Course in General
Linguistics” (1916) resulted in the emergance of a new movement in literary theories called
structuralism that flourished in the 1960s. Its ambition was to discover underlying structure of
literature; it tried to analyse literature in the most scientific and schematic way. A literary text was
for structuralists a structural whole
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