7.2 Jessica Read: ‘Experience: I survived an earthquake while scuba diving’ Flashcards
1
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Genre
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reportage
2
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Audience
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- Guardian readers
- those interested in scuba diving/natural disasters
- young middle class
3
Q
Purpose
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- offer her perspective on the event
- reflect on the fragility of life
- encourage readers to reflect on their own life
4
Q
Voice
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- detached
- poetic
- factual
- anecdotal
- colloquial
5
Q
“This was my 40th dive, so I knew the drill.”
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- numbers/facts to show experience
- idiom
6
Q
“I love the calmness of being submerged, the hypnotic sound of my breath and the quiet clicks of fish eating coral”
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- auditory language
- sensory imagery
- juxtaposes earthquake about to happen
- semantic field of relaxation
- creates peaceful atmosphere
7
Q
“Drowned out by a low rumble like an engine”
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- simile
- verb ‘drowned’ is a pun
- breaking of serenity
8
Q
“We were enveloped by clouds of white sand that mushroomed up around us, and I thought, could it be an underwater bomb?”
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- cataphroic reference to Hiroshima
- rhetorical question shows frantic thoughts and inability to comprehend
9
Q
Context
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- part of a series of National disasters where people tell their experiences
- only published due to her experience: actually written by ghost writer Moya Sarner
10
Q
“It releases more energy than 30 Hiroshima bombs”
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- understands the severity of what she experienced
- daunting for the reader
- factual language
