Neither Here Nor There - bill bryson Flashcards
1
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context
A
telling story of when he visited paris
2
Q
audience
A
travellers interested in travel/ paris
3
Q
purpose
A
entertain
insight
4
Q
mode
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travel writing
5
Q
genre
A
travel
6
Q
‘(£58 a year a head)’
A
parentheses
statistics- reliable
snide comment
7
Q
‘pathologically aggressive drivers’
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humour
snide comment
premodifyers
8
Q
homodiegetic
A
narrator is speaking about his own experiences
9
Q
‘the Mona Lisa was like a postage stamp’
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simile
criticism
comparing something famous to something little
downplaying the glamour
10
Q
‘i don’t want to get too graphic in case you’re eating’
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direct to audience
humour
11
Q
‘why should cars be given priority over me?’ ‘?’ ‘?’
A
rhetorical questions
witty
stream of consciousness
12
Q
‘flicked me into the gutter’
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belittled
like a bug
reinforce stereotype of French people being rude
