French Milk

Question 1

State the text type.

Answer 1

Illustrated / photographic journal.

Question 2

What evidence is there of the text type? (4)

Answer 2

• Use of illustrations and photographs with captions
• Ellipsis used: ‘Started off the day…’ which makes it sound more informal / more like spoken mode.
• 1st person / past tense verbs: ‘we walked back to the metro’
• Semantic field of emotions - common in personal journal.

Question 3

State the mode.

Answer 3

Written mode with multimodal elements.

Question 4

What evidence is there of the written mode?

Answer 4

• Edited, grammatically correct, uses Standard English and low frequency lexis creating a more formal tone.
• Evidence that the text has been pre-planned and researched.

Question 5

State the audience type. (2)

Answer 5

• People with an interest in art / culture
• Those interested in the comic genre

Question 6

Suggest evidence for the ‘those interested in the comic genre:’.

Answer 6

• Semantic field of comics: ‘panel structure’ ‘scanning techniques’
• Exclamatory ‘we saw a show of work by Herge!’ readers expected to share her excitement.

Question 7

State and describe the purpose of the text.

Answer 7

Record personal experience and emotion: past tense and adjective phrases

Entertain: amusing pictures accompany hyperbolic anecdote about her mum. Contrast between interrogatives ‘what do you think an apartment here would cost me?’ and minimal responses ‘nnng’ creates humour.

Question 8

Evidence of the multimodal elements.

Answer 8

• VISUAL ELEMENTS - drawings are used to support the information in the written text.
• SPOKEN LANGUAGE FEATURES - colloquial lexis such as ‘sucker’ and ‘cool’.