THE SWEET LIFE IN PARIS: DELICIOUS ADVENTURES IN THE WORLD'S MOST GLORIOUS AND PERPLEXING CITY

Question 1

How is Paris presented in ‘The Sweet Life…’ ?

Answer 1

Deliberately negative in tone to mock French culture and show the general inconveniences of day-to-day life in Paris.

Question 2

GAPM for ‘The Sweet Life…’

Answer 2

Genre- Travel and tourism/Parisians

Audience- Tourists/fellow Parisians/Americans (tertiary audience)

Purpose- Entertain and describe

Mode- Book extract, written mode, planned and indirect- adult point of view in the first person

Question 3

Key language devices for ‘The Sweet Life…’

Answer 3

Parenthesis - entertainment value

Sarcasm

Onomatopoeia

Hyperboles

Syndetic lists

Anecdotes

Semantic field of restriction