3.2 B. Neyland

Question 1

Genre / mode?

Answer 1

Extract from a printed memoir (book), edited for publication

Question 2

Audience?

Answer 2

Those interested in WW1 / soldier’s personal accounts / experiences of war and battle

Question 3

Purpose?

Answer 3

Recount, share personal experiences, inform, expose realities of war

Question 4

Memoirs…

Answer 4

Focus on a specific time in the writer’s life

Question 5

Genre characteristics of memoirs?

Answer 5

Written retrospectively (past tense), focuses only on one period of time, non-fiction, first person, thoughts and opinions

Question 6

Vocab for voice? (12)

Answer 6

Candid, honest, naive, jingoistic (aggressive patriotism), unsettled, passive, critical, vague, shocked, courageous, fearful, optimistic

Question 7

‘The Rolincourt Station! That was Hewitt and I and an officer!’ Analysis?

Answer 7

Proper nouns juxtapose next statement; deliberate childish register; childlike exclamatives; three people, unpreparedness; polysyndetic list

Question 8

‘I was wearing band-new riding breeches, puttees and boots.’ Analysis?

Answer 8

Concern for clothes, ironic; no horses, unprepared; syndetic list; army lexis, changing war

Question 9

‘I laughed […] It was nothing before I took to flinging myself down on such occasions.’ Analysis?

Answer 9

Ironic; learnt fast, implications of survival; violent dynamic verbs; doesn’t appear brave; implications of repeated occasions, danger of trenches

Question 10

‘At last I was to play a real part in the Great War.’ Analysis?

Answer 10

Impatience and excitement; jingoistic, propaganda, insecurity; irony; naive

Question 11

‘At the age of eighteen I crossed to France early in 1917.’ Analysis?

Answer 11

Naive, inexperience; numerical lexis; time lexis, context of war; cultural reference

Question 12

‘We operators only had a vague idea of our likely duties’ analysis?

Answer 12

Inclusion, part of a group, belonging; naive; jingoistic; candid account of the war