Vocabulary for Humor, Reporting, Emotions, Values, and More
Humor: Clever Adjectives
- Cheeky
- Smart
- Funny
- Fun
- Hilarious
- Harmless
- Divertidisimo
- Naive
- Ironic
- Witty
- Sarcastic
- Ridiculous
- Offensive
- Rude
- Shocking
- Silly
- Foolish
- Wise
- Sage
Reporting Verbs
- Agree
- Admit
- Recognize
- Advise
- Counsel
- Apologize
- Beg
- Ask
- Declare
- Explain
- Insist (on)
- Stresses
- Invite
- Offer
- Recommend
- Order
- Suggest
- Tell
- Say
- Warn
Expressing Emotions: Verbs
- Feel good/bad about something
- Get angry/depressed about something
- Have a good/bad time
- Look on/see the funny/bright side of things
- Take something badly/seriously
Verbs (Other)
- Arrange
- Bother
- Complain
- Collapse
- Expect
Analyzing Literary and Theatrical Texts: A Deep Dive
Critical Review of a Literary Text
We are presented with a literary text belonging to the narrative genre. Specifically, it is a fragment of a novel by an outstanding representative of a specific literary period. Like any novel, a story is told, developed by a narrator, and written in prose form. The narrator considers the facts (type of narrator and examples). If you have read the book, and it is possible, we will situate the text in the introduction, body, or conclusion, justifying it with data
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Castilian Scientific Texts
Scientific and Humanistic Disciplines
There are two primary types of speech:
- The experimental sciences (physics, biology, etc.) and art (architecture, computer science, etc.).
- The humanities or social sciences (philosophy, history, philology, etc.).
Characteristics of Scientific and Humanistic Texts
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Old English Prose: From Alfred to Beowulf
Old English Prose
The Anglo-Saxon invaders brought with them their own poetry, but there’s no evidence of their having any literary prose tradition. The development of Old English prose took place mainly in England and mainly as a result of the Christianization of England.
King Alfred
We can say that English prose begins with King Alfred because he wanted to bring to the people the most significant aspects of earlier thought (Latin, Greek, etc.). He was very much concerned with culture and carried
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Allegory
Allegory is a prolonged correspondence of symbols or metaphors. It translates a real plane, A, to an imaginary plane, B, through an unbroken series of metaphors.
Simile or Comparison
A simile or comparison is a rhetorical figure of linking between two words to express explicitly the similarity or analogy presented by realities designated by them. That relationship is established, usually by means of particles or comparative links: as, well, as such, like, so, like, like, etc.
Personification
Personification
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Martin Amis’ *Time’s Arrow* (1991)
Amis’ novels express skepticism, urban decay, violence, brutality, the danger of global destruction, and the imminent collapse of modern civilization. The themes and motives he deals with in his fiction—suicide, crime, nuclear weapons, social and sexual violence, the unhappiness of divorce—can be related to childhood fears and to close personal experiences. Despite all the aforementioned, Kingsley Amis is, above all, a comic writer. He uses black and savage
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