Australian Outback Experiences: A Literary Exploration
The Harsh Australian Outback
The two short stories, “The Drover’s Wife” and “In a Dry Season” portray two distinctive experiences revolving around the harsh lifestyle in the rugged Australian outback. “The Drover’s Wife” represents the struggles of families living close to the wild facets of nature, like snakes and thunderstorms. The story indirectly compares the tensions of an ordinary family as opposed to a wealthier family. In “In a Dry Season,” Lawson explores similar ideas
Read MoreLiterary Language and Figures of Speech
Key Figures of Speech
Phonetic or Repeating Figures
Alliteration: Repetition of similar sounds.
Sound Symbolism: Alliteration imitating natural sounds.
Paronomasia: Similarity between two different words.
Anaphora: Repetition of a word at the beginning of successive clauses.
Epiphora: Repetition of a word at the end of successive clauses.
Anadiplosis: Repetition of the last word of one clause at the beginning of the next.
Epanadiplosis: Repetition of a word at the beginning and end of a clause.
Gemination:
Read MoreNarrative, Descriptive, Expository, and Romantic Texts
Narrative
The narrative is an account of actions, real or fictitious, carried out by characters. The narrator is the voice the author uses to tell the story. A narrator who doesn’t participate in the events is an external narrator, while a narrator who is the protagonist or witness is an internal narrator. The external narrator presents the facts using the third person, whereas the internal narrator often uses the first person.
The action consists of events located in time and space. A story has
Read MoreJournalistic Genres: News, Opinion, and Interpretation
Journalistic Genres
Types of Journalistic Genres
We can establish three types of journalistic genres: news, opinion, and interpretative. Newspapers and magazines include pages for information, opinion pieces on current events, and interpretative journalism, combining data and information with the journalist’s own personal approaches.
News
News is the story of a current event of public interest. The journalist must report events or facts objectively and truthfully. The language style is defined by clarity,
Read MoreTime, Space, and Family Saga in Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits
Study of Time and Space in The House of the Spirits
Historical Time
Isabel Allende’s The House of the Spirits recreates Chilean history and a family’s saga across generations, intertwining time and space. Set in the 20th century, the novel blends historical facts and fiction, spanning from the colonial era through the World Wars to Pinochet’s 1973 dictatorship. It traces Chile’s social and ideological shifts, including technological advancements, evolving customs, socialist ideas, women’s emancipation,
Read MoreExploring Literary Texts and Genres
Literary Texts
Literature and the Literary
Literature is a unique form of communication characterized by a universal audience, absence of immediate practical purpose, creative function, enduring and unchanging nature, reflection of the author’s perspective, and open interpretation.
Literary Genres
The concept of genre has been a source of ongoing debate, giving rise to two main perspectives: classical and romantic. The classical view adheres to established genre boundaries and models, while the romantic
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