Captain Scott's Diary 1912 Flashcards

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Lexis

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Uses relatively simple lexis with little complex latinate lexis, instead selects concrete old English and french derived lexis to convey physical sensations

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“The”

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The anaphoric definite article creates cohesion

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“whine”, “crunch”, “ring”

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Onomateapia against the “eternal silence”- makes the experience vivid and immediate

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“hiss” , “steam”

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Alliterative devices employed to create a ‘soundscape”- sibilance echo the sound of a boiling stove (he is remembering his domestic setting)

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“gentle flutter..shelter”

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Disyllabics and labial dental sounds it conveys the sounds of a flapping canvas

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Context

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Produced in an extraordinary circumstance as he was close to his own death
Facing a challenge against the hostile Antarctic climate

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Form

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Written text
Adopts a “prose poem” dividing each observation into a separate line
Writes about the Antarctic wilderness in the form of a poetic travelogue

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“blizzard”, “surface crust”, “powdered snow”

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employs a precise range of semantic fields related to Antarctic weather conditions

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“pale yellow wraiths”

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ghost-like and supernatural

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Purpose

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was at first writing for publication to a wide general audience

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“heralding the coming storm”

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complex subordinating clause- allows detail to be added economically to develop his impressions

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“The whine of a dog and the neigh of our steeds”

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Sentences are often connected with ‘and’

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“steeds”, “chides”, “wraiths”

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Scott deliberately uses archaic poetic terms to create poetic register

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How is the poetic register created?

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through form and grammatical choices

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15
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“great white desert”

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employs poetic language/ device to capture weather

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Structure

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In the present tense, each of his impressions omits a finite verb (so each seems a rarefied discourse different to prose)- use of minor sentences also conveys this effect