Literary Prayers

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• How is a literary sentence constructed?
• Literary resources
• Examples of literary sentences

The literary sentences They are those that we use when we want to give what is expressed a higher aesthetic value. For example: The city smiled knowingly.

Literary sentences move away from everyday communication, which is largely oriented to practical issues and therefore gives greater weight to the referential language function.

• It can help you: Literary genres

How is a literary sentence constructed?

The poetic function Language is the one that dominates in literary sentences, which almost always include one or more literary figures, that is, language resources to give more beauty or more feeling when expressing an idea.

Of course, it is not easy to construct a literary sentence, since it requires a very good command of the language, especially a great command of cult vocabulary and a fine artistic sensitivity. Poets like Federico García Lorca or Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer have left wonderful literary prayers for humanity.

Literary sentences appear in both prose and verse; poetry is undoubtedly the genre in which literary sentences find their most fertile field. Rhetoric or "the art of good saying" is the discipline that investigates all these questions.

Literary resources

Examples of literary sentences

1. He fought like a lion against his illness.
2. His heart turned into a rock from that day on.
3. He is always in the clouds, thinking about his things.
4. It is not possible to pierce the shell of his wounded soul.
5. Life gave them those two buds when autumn was almost upon them.
6. The snows of time silvered his temple.
7. From the living room in the dark corner // of its owner perhaps forgotten // silent and covered in dust // the harp could be seen.
8. The stars look at us, the city smiles at us in accomplice.
9. Every child comes with bread under his arm.
10. The pearls of your mouth whisper in my ear.
11. That trip lit the flame that seemed extinguished.
12. Cervantes's pen has not yet been surpassed.
13. I couldn't get even a word out of him.
14. The ice in his gaze devastated me.
15. The will can move mountains.
16. Like the phoenix, that grouping rose from its ashes.
17. That boy is a bulldozer: where he passes nothing remains standing.
18. They are having a steamy romance.
19. That boy did take off like a rocket.
20. Green I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.

• See also: Literary texts