Personal Narrative: Anna

Question 1

State the text type?

Answer 1

Spontaneous speech

Question 2

What evidence is there of the text type? (6)

Answer 2

• Pauses (2)
• Fillers (‘erm’)
• High frequency lexis
  (‘good’)
• Vague language (and things)
• Hedges (‘sort of’)
• False start (like it doesn’t (.) I don’t know)

Question 3

State the mode.

Answer 3

Spoken mode

Question 4

What evidence is there of the mode?

Answer 4

• Pauses (2)
• Fillers (‘erm’)
• High frequency lexis
  (‘good’)
• Vague language (and things)
• Hedges (‘sort of’)
• False start (like it doesn’t (.) I don’t know)

Question 5

State the audience type. (2)

Answer 5

The audience is unknown.

Question 6

Suggest evidence for the unknown audience.

Answer 6

The speaker is British
and being recorded addressing an unknown audience.
She tries to create a fairly relaxed relationship with her unknown audience: ‘I feel like I should say hi’ (colloquial greeting)

Audience are expected to be British too as there are constant comparisons with London: ‘unlike London’ (proper noun)

Seems to be aimed at people with an interest wide range of culture and architecture: ‘art deco’ (qualitative adjective) ‘shops, bars and cafes’ (list of concrete nouns),

Question 7

State and describe the purpose of the text.

Answer 7

To inform:
declaratives:
‘everything is centred
around the river’

To give personal
opinion: the verbs ‘I
like’ and ‘I think’ used
often along with
evaluative
adjectives such as
‘lovely’ ‘interesting’