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Scheda di analisi di un testo narrativo

Analizzare un testo narrativo non è mai un’operazione immediata. A differenza della poesia, dove la struttura e le figure retoriche spesso “saltano agli occhi”, la prosa si muove in modo più fluido e meno visibile: significati, temi e scelte stilistiche sono intrecciati alla storia e ai personaggi, e richiedono attenzione, metodo e allenamento per essere messi a fuoco. Proprio per questo motivo, è importante avvalersi di una guida per orientarsi nella complessità del testo, a scomporlo nei suoi elementi essenziali e a leggerlo in modo più consapevole e profondo.  In questo post presento una  scheda per l'analisi di un testo narrativo, da vedere non come una gabbia rigida ma come un metodo per osservare il testo con ordine, coglierne i meccanismi narrativi e trasformare la lettura in uno strumento di comprensione critica.   CONTESTUALIZZAZIONE Autore: ___________________________________________________ Titolo dell'opera: ____________________________________________  ...

The Second World War (summary)

   When George V died in 1936, his son Edward VIII became king of England. The new king abdicated after only ten months in order to marry an American woman, who had divorced, and his brother George VI ovent to the throne ruling country during World war. Because of Versailles' treaty signed in June 1919, Germany underwent a terrible economic crisis in the 1920s, which helped the Nazi Party's rise to the power. In order to avoid another world war, Britain ignored the Spanish Civil War (1936-39), the occupation of Austria by Hitler (1938) and Czechoslovakia, thankin Munich Agreement signed by Britain and France with Germany. When Germany invaded Poland on the 1st of September 1939 France and Britain declared war on Germany. In this way World War II broke out. In the first phase of the conflict Germany occupied France and most European countries, Italy entered the war on Germany's side (1940) and the United States were still neutral. In 1940 Britain had to bear the brunt of the...

Robert Louis Stevenson

  Robert Louis Stevenson was born in Edinburgh in 1850 and attended Edinburgh University, where he studied before engineering and then law. However, he decided to become a professional writer, going against family expectations. Moreover , he rebelled against his father’s Calvinist religion. Several trips and travels abroad due to his consumption asserted literary tendencies of Stevenson: in 1873 Stevenson went to the French Riviera and undertook a canoe tour in Belgium (1876) and described it in An inland voyage (1878). Then he moved to California where he met a woman, Frances Osbourne, and they got married. The travel memoir The Silverado squatters written in 1883   is the result of his stay in California. He collected essays, short stories and fragments, which were published in periodicals: Virginibus puerisque (1881); The new Arabian nights (1882); Familiar studies of men and books (1882) are some examples. In 1884 they returned to England for three years. His f...