Rick Steves' Walking Tour of the Louvre Museum Flashcards
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How is Paris presented in ‘Walking Tour’
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Busy/Crowded, popular
Sense of community and supportiveness
Focuses on the iconic side of Paris/Niche viewpoint
Magical/aesthetically pleasing
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GAPM for ‘Walking Tour’
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Genre- Transcript of Podcast for a museum tour (Tourist)
Audience- Visitors of the Louvre Gallery
Purpose- To inform and describe the art within the Louvre, guide them through the museum
Mode- Spoken mode, planned, direct
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Key language devices in ‘Walking Tour’
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Direct Address
Metaphors
Hyperbole
Asyndetic listing
Repetition (Beauty/aesthetics)
Synthetic Address
Comparative connectives
Superlatives
Temporal Deixis
Imperative verbs
French dialect
Sibilance
Factual information/Statistics
Alliteration
Semantic field (History)
