Key Concepts in Media, Language, and Literature

Audiovisual Elements

Elements of audiovisual media combine sound and image, playing a very important role with their particular ideology.

Features of Audiovisual Media

• Convey information, opinions, etc.
• Users (viewers, listeners, and readers) have possibilities to interact.

Main Audiovisual Media

• Press
• Radio
• Television
• Film
• Thematic Xanxo (Note: 'Xanxo' is unclear in context)

Characteristics of Media Types

• Radio: Uses sound, very accessible.
• TV: Majority medium, image combined with sound.
• Film: Art and entertainment, disseminated in projection rooms and DVD.
• Internet: A global medium, offers everything.

Spelling Notes

Specific rules for open vowels and diphthongs (likely related to a specific language, e.g., Catalan):

Open Vowel 'e' Rules

Majority of esdrúixoles (proparoxytones), endings in -oc, -ofa, -igo, -ol, -ort, -ot, -ost.

Open Vowel 'a' Rules

Front vowels: l·l, w, r.

Diphthong 'eu' Rules

With most esdrúixoles, endings in -ecte, -ecta, -eptela.

Weak Pronouns

Weak pronouns have multiple syntactic functions (CD, CI, attribute, CC, etc.).

Placement Relative to Verb

• After the verb: Infinitive, gerund, or imperative.
• Before the verb: Other verb forms, regardless of whether it's a periphrasis.

Forms (Reinforced/Elided, Full/Reduced)

Can be before the verb (reinforced or elided) or behind (full or reduced).

Romanticism Movement

Cultural movement of the late eighteenth century, advocating for the defense of feelings against reason and reclaiming individual liberty versus the collective.

Key Characteristics of Romanticism

• Exaltation of feelings and emotions (subjectivity, individualism).
• Preference for fantastical issues.
• Interest in folk traditions and the national language of the people, defending liberty (nationalism).
• Defends originality.
• Interest in exotic cultures.
• Interest in the past (rural, medieval world - conservative aspect) and looking to the future (liberal aspect).

Romanticism and the Renaissance

Movements of the mid-nineteenth century. The Renaissance was a cultural and political movement that fostered a national feeling and recovery of medieval literature.

Literary Focus

Poetry was its preferred genre (e.g., Jacint Verdaguer and Teodor Llorente), but without neglecting theater (e.g., Àngel Guimerà).

Poetry of the Renaissance

A cultivated literary genre, focusing on regional and thematic topics.

Characteristics of Renaissance Poetry

The restoration of floral motifs or poetic contests allowed for the creation of a public readership and a publishing industry.