Expository Writing: Features, Resources, and Modernist Poetry

Expository Writing: Brochure Features

Expository writing is used to raise awareness about an issue of general interest.

Features:

• Aims to inform, explain, convince, and suggest solutions.
• Presents information in a clear, direct, and attractive way.
• The content is displayed following a logical, hierarchical, and coherent order.
• The receptor recognizes authority on a certain topic.
• The brochure is a work of collective effort.
• Uses present tense and standard language.

Resources: Typographical Brands

Explanatory texts have a formal aspect, using various types of fonts and letters, hyphens, periods, colors, numbers, underscores, captions, or titles. These brands have two functions:

• Specify the order.
• Highlight important information.

Schema: Key Connectors for Explanation

1. Classifiers:

• Presenters: to mark the beginning: input, first, firstly, first of all...
• Sequence: besides, also, secondly, in addition, then...
• Completion: lastly, finally...
• Hierarchizers: mainly, mostly, above all, and besides, not only, but...
• Signaling of parallelism: likewise, and as, on one hand... on the other...

2. Logic Connectors:

• To brainstorm ideas for reformulating information.
• To add concepts.
• To exemplify: thus, for example, particularly, as such...

Coordinating Connectors:

• Copulative: and, nor
• Dilemma: either, or
• Distributive: whether... or, now... now, or... or
• Adversative: however, but, nevertheless, otherwise
• Explanatory: namely, that is
• Continuative: besides, and yet

Subordinating Connectors:

if, when, where, because

Modernist Poetry

Modernist poets were opposed to the views of the poets of the Floral Games. There are two groups that were differentiated by their conception of poetry:

1. Regeneracionistes:

Poetry in favor of a spontaneous expression, defending the pure and sincere emotion of the artist, leaving formal questions in a secondary position. They deal with themes of nature with a vivacious tone.

2. Esteticistes:

Poets who connect with the most innovative European poetic movements. They advocate a more highbrow poetry, elaborate and contrived, both in form and content.

Maragall:

He was the most important poet of the modernist regeneration trend. His theory is based on the poetic word alive. For Maragall, the word is sacred because it reveals the poet's most intimate vibration. They emphasize the recreation of myths and popular songs of the Catalan tradition and the evocation of nature and landscape.

Generation of 1909:

Modernism in Valencia had a fleeting existence. The reasons are: the influence on poetry of Teodor Llorente and success in theater comedy sketches, and a lack of industrial bourgeoisie. Remember writers: Vicente Blasco Ibanez, Gabriel Miró, or Azorín, who wrote in Spanish.

Modernist Theater:

The theater genre experienced a profound renewal in the modern era with the introduction of theatrical currents dominant in Europe. There are two trends:

1. Regeneration Theater:

It was a theater of ideas. It dramatized the conflict between the artist and society, between the individual and the environment. Author: Ignacio Iglesias.

2. Aesthetic Theater:

They defended the taste of art for art. The themes of the works belonging to this current do not deal with any social problems. Highlights: Adrià Gual and Rusiñol with the adaptation of the novel The Tale of Sir Stephen.