Concetti Chiave
- Romantic comedies focus on young love and often conclude with a happy ending, frequently using poetic language.
- Satirical comedies mock human flaws and negativity, typically concluding with a moral lesson.
- Restoration comedies use irony and witty dialogue to critique high society and manners.
- Historical novels are set in the past, intertwining fictional characters with significant historical events.
- Science fiction novels explore future or scientific discoveries, focusing on imaginary worlds and space travel.
ROMANTIC: which contrasted love of young people who finally have an happy ending. They often use a poetry language.
SATIRICAL: this makes fun humans and negative; usually has a moral final. They also have a moralize perple.
RESTAURATION OR OF MANNERS: irony is often used; dialogues are really important; it is addressed to the high society. It is witty and sometimes critics society.
NOVEL
STORY: description of connected series of events.
PLOTS: the way in which the events of the story are organized into a narration.
HISTORICAL NOVEL: is set in past times and the action and lives of colorful characters are set against great historical events.
PICARESCHE NOVEL: it tells about people's adventure on the road. It derives its name from the Spanish, ‘Picaro’=outsiders.
SCIENCE FICTION NOVEL: it is based on future or scientific discovers, it deals with imaginary words, space travels, life on other planets. Its interested derives from the effects on man or scents or technology.
SHORT STORY: short work of fiction written in artistic prose. Carefully built because it must make its point in a few pages. Based on more or less story, acted out by character told by first person narrator. Technically it includes most of the pictures we find in novels but unlike the novel, economy of style and of stricter are essential, the consequence of the short story brevity that it usually in the mind of a situation, media res.