1.1 Charlie Brooker: “Too much talk for one planet: Why I’m reducing my word emissions” Flashcards
Genre
Satire & Opinion
Mode
Article
Audience
Older and more mature, fans of Brooker’s work
Purpose
Awareness of opinion
Context
Charlie Brooker:
- writer and co show runner of Black Mirror
- worked on comic book in the 80s, sold vastly due to his dark humour
- taken too far in 1998, he said kids should take on violent tendencies on animals and not humans
“roughly two people noticed it’s absence”
irony, litoties
- self deprecating humour
- makes the reader feel comfortable
- number “2”: mathematical lexis
“(not true)” “(also not true)” “(not entirely true)”
parenthesis
- breaking the 4th wall
“intense flurry of activity”
metaphor and hyperbole
- taking the mick that everyone was panicking
“for reasons i’ll explain in a moment”
- interrupts himself
- conversational
- speaking to the audience
“to whine in the most pompous manner”
- mocking people who complain about him
“olympic level navel gazing”
- sardonic imagery
- being deliberately narcissistic
“cheerfully siegheils on BBC Breakfast”
anecdote
- reference to Nazi salute: disturbing imagery
- makes reader feel uncomfortable
- “BBC Breakfast”: familiar collocation
“factory mindlessly pumping carbon dioxide into a toxic sky”
metaphor
- comparing writing to pollution; ironic and satirical
- downplaying climate change
- pejorative tone
“i’m an elderly man from the age of steam”
hyperbole
- emotive language
- mocking himself
- reference to industrial revolution
- reader might feel bad for him
“just like church and state”
simile
- condescending tone, self deprecating
- poking fun at religion; controversial
“minuscule fraction of readers”
mathematical lexis
- mocking the fact he doesn’t reach many people
“i’d say Twitter’s better for back and forth discussion anyway”
neologism
- mocking how people complain on Twitter and criticising them
- aggressive tone
“yelling out the window at passersby is another option”
satirical tone
- hypocritical
- aware of what he’s doing
- criticising people who complain on social media
“the ugly bitch, boo, go home bitch go home”
profanity
- being more colloquial
- making fun of women
- deliberately using words we’re familiar with
“who needs to see typed applause accompanying an article? it’s just weird. i don’t get it”
rhetorical question
- mocking his own readership and himself
“i fail to see the point of roughly 98% of human communication”
mathematical lexis
- ironic
- his job is communication
- pessimistic
“which is a foldable thing made of paper, containing words and pictures”
satirical
- mocking younger generation
“now get out”
imperative
- ends it before the reader can
- sneering at audience
- puts an end to conversational tone