The Most Beautiful Walk in the World Flashcards
State the text type?
Memoir
What evidence is there of the text type?
Unusual use of present tense: everyday…..I pass them’ ‘we see a lot of them…’ writing about his present experience - he still lives in Paris - rather than a memory.
State the mode.
Written mode.
What evidence is there of the mode?
Written mode: edited,
grammatically correct, uses Standard English and low frequency lexis (eg. ‘loiter’), creating a
more formal tone.
Evidence that the text has been pre-planned (eg. simile such as ‘the locals breeze past as careless as birds in a tree’) and researched (eg. quotes from other books: ‘the writer Edmund White says n his elegant book The Flaneur’).
State the audience type. (2)
- Intellectual readers
- People in search of
an ‘authentic’ experience of Paris
Suggest evidence for the ‘intellectual readers’.
Literary allusion: ‘what Dante saw over
the gate to hell’
Suggest evidence for the ‘people in search of an ‘authentic’
experience of Paris’.
He mocks the tourists
‘huddling’ over their maps and guide books. Uses third person pronoun ‘they’ to distance himself and his readers from them.
State and describe the purpose of the text. (3)
To inform: declaratives.
Describe: descriptions of tourists noun phrases.
Entertain: hyperbole to describe what tourists see when they look at Metro sign.
