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Topic 1. Introduction to epic genre - Coggle Diagram
Topic 1. Introduction to epic genre
The word "epic", used as an adjective has become stylish in recent years. You may have heard from your friends, saying that something was epic.
The meaning given to the word is something related to the magnificent, astonishing or the amazing.
How do you use the term “epic”?
Although in some informal contexts (as in a talk among friends) the word is used in this way, the original meaning of epic is very different. For practical purposes of this course, we will be guided by the literary vein of the word.
Definition of Epic
At the beginning, the epic genre narrated historical facts about events that happened in the past of a nation.
It usually makes an exhilaration of the heroes of the past and relives their adventures in a glorious way that sometimes can be fantastic.
The epic is told through large poems (the Mahabharata, an epic poem of India, has more than 200,000 verses) and one of its purposes was to promote the ancestors and convey the story from one generation to another
The story and the theme
When we are talking about the story, we will not be referring to the discipline that talks about the events of the past (that's history), but to the actions and the events that happen within the text.
To know exactly what the story in a text is, you can use the following question:
What is the text narrating? The story and the plot are also different things,
It is narrated in a chronological order, which is from the beginning to the end.
Literary discourse is the "communication process in which the language is comprehended, it has an author , an event (what the message says, what is happening in the story) and a receiver (the reader that receives the message)
The literary discourses can be written in two ways: verse and prose.
verse
is the way that has rhythm, cadence, and measurement and is written in lines, it may or may not have rhyme.
The theme refers to an idea that appears in the text and that is central, but the author does not say it explicitly. It is something that remains implicit and that the reader must unravel. The theme can be usually said in a few words, because it covers the entire text .
prose
is like everyday speech, which has a common structure and doesn't have verse or rhyme.