Informative and Literary Text
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ScribdTranslationsWhat is informative text:
The informative text is a type of content production that allows the reader to obtain
information about a current or past event or any other matter or
perceived theme in newspapers, encyclopedias, magazines, etc.
Regarding their structure, informative texts have an introduction, development
In conclusion. The informative text must contain real situations and accurate information.
and true, that is why the language used in the narration of the informative text is objective,
coherent, direct and the use of linguistic resources such as metaphor, proverbs is prohibited
among others, that can lead the reader to double interpretations.
The main function of an informative text is the presentation of good content.
informative with organized, clear, and as explanatory as possible ideas that allow the reader to
understanding of the text, which makes the use of examples and references very important.
or bibliographic sources and the perfect use of punctuation marks: commas, periods,
accent, as well as the use of connectors to explain consequences, purpose, causes,
etcetera.
Informative text about 'The elephant'
The elephant is a terrestrial mammal, the largest that exists. They live in herds.
that sometimes have hundreds of members. It has thick skin that is gray or brownish and
a very good memory.
There are today in two distinct species: the African elephant and the Asian elephant. Among the
extinct genera of this family include mammoths.
They normally live from 50 to 70 years. The largest elephant that has been hunted, of those
it is recorded, it weighed around 11,000 kg
The literary text is one that uses literary language, a type of language that seeks a
certain aesthetic end to capture the reader's interest. The author of literature seeks the words
suitable for expressing their ideas clearly and according to a certain style criterion.
There are many and varied characteristics that identify a literary text. However,
among all of them we could highlight the following:
Aesthetic communicative intention. What we mean by this is that its function is to create
A work of art, hence its purpose is artistic and not practical.
Own world. Whether real or not the references used by the literary text writer,
What is clear is that he advocates for creating and developing a world in which he will immerse himself.
fully the reader when they start to read those.
Originality. That text born from the mind of an author willing is completely unprecedented.
to tell a story to his audience.
In addition to all that has been stated, we cannot overlook the existence of a great variety.
of types of literary texts. In this way, the following stand out among them:
A story. Brief, fictional, and with few characters it is.
Novel. In Antiquity, the origin of this type of text can be found, which is one of the
most important within Literature and that is divided into numerous genres.
Legends, literary texts based on real events and embellished with fantasy.
Poetry. In verse and with rhyme. This is how that which appeals to feelings is presented.
Fable. To convey a moral and ensure that the reader learns a lesson is what
it basically aims to achieve this type of literary text that is brief, fictional and that can
to be done in prose or verse.
Narrative Literary Genre
Example 1: Excerpt from the novel La Regenta. Leopoldo Alas ('Clarín')
The heroic city was taking a nap. The warm and lazy South wind was pushing the clouds.
whitish ones that tore as they ran towards the North. In the streets, there was no more noise
that the strident rumor of swirling dust, rags, straw, and papers that went from
stream in stream, from sidewalk to sidewalk, from corner to corner fluttering and chasing each other,
like butterflies that seek each other and flee, and that the air wraps in its invisible folds.
What mobs of little thieves, those crumbs of the garbage, those leftovers of everything gathered together.
in a pile, they paused as if sleeping for a moment and startled, they jumped again
spreading, crawling up the walls to the trembling glass of the
lanterns, others even the poorly glued paper posters on the corners, and there was a pen that
arrives.
Epic Genre
Example 5: Excerpt from 'The Aeneid', by Virgil
I sing of arms and of the man who first came to Italy as a fugitive from the shores of Troy.
by fate and to the Lavinian shores, shaken by sea and land by the violence of the
gods because of the stubborn wrath of cruel Juno, after much suffering also in war,
until he founded the city and brought his gods to Latium; hence the Latin people and the fathers
Albanians and the walls of high Rome.
Literary Genre - Lyrical
Example 8: Excerpt from the poem "Serene Night" by Fray Luis de León
When I contemplate the sky adorned with countless lights, and I look down to the ground at night.
surrounded, in sleep and buried in forgetfulness, love and sorrow awaken in my chest a longing
burning; they release long veins the eyes made fountain, Loarte, and I finally say with a sorrowful voice