Text 9 & 29

Text 9 : Great British Journeys by David McKie

Nina, Immi, Abu, Asher, Dilara and Morgan

Text 29 : Rural Rides by William Cobbett

FORM AND STRUCTURE

Text 9: Abu Text 29: Immi

S: Travelling in Britain (Clitheroe) P: To inform/ advise/entertain A: British, Middle class and educated
readers

S: County of Surrey/ Record of

William Cobbetts travels

G: Non fiction account

1st part of Text Narration (1st person) 2nd part dialogue ( Anecdote) 3rd part description

P: To inform A: Educated audience G: A descriptive account of his

journey

CONTEXTS OF PRODUCTION AND RECEPTION:

Text 9: Nina David McKie
Born 1935 Deputy editor of The Guardian Mostly a political journalist: -The Election: A Voter's Guide (1992) -Sadly Mismanaged Affair: Politics of the Third London Airport (1973) -McKie's Gazetteer: A Local History of Britain (2008)

Text 29: Morgan

William Cobbett
Born in Surrey year 1793 Died in 1835 Ran a newspaper called the Political Register Publications consisted of political, historical and travel subjects: -In 1832 he was successful and elected as Member of Parliament for Oldham. Similar to David Mckie, most of his publications were aimed at a Middle class British audience. His text could be seen as biased as he was born in Surrey where the text is set.

Usually writes for a more educated and middle class audience

Widely focused on British Politics, History and Travel destinations meaning his readers are predominantly British

WORD CHOICE
TEXT 9: Morgan
- Pre-modifying adjectives such as "pleasant" and "terrifying"
- Sophisticated lexis: Written by Guardian Journalist - Dialogue from actual bus journey, uses speech marks to emphasise this. Means the audience can engage with the piece of writing as it becomes more real to them. - Elliptical sentences to show idiolect of school kids.

TEXT 29: Dilara

Sophisticated Lexis Lexis suggests that it is for an educated reader, also as the writer is highly educated.

- Lexical field of the theme "travel" throughout

- Narrator uses formal lexis when describing the journey.

GRAMMAR
TEXT 29: Asher Pre-modifying adjectives Use of complex sentences - pleasant villages indicate the texts audience highlights/emphasises positivity towards (adult/educated)
Clitheroe
Adjectives to portray feeling enjoyable, glorious highlights/emphasises positive experience Compound sentences line 3 suggest it is targeted at educated readers Asyndetic listing & syndetic listing line 31 , 32 emphasises abnormality of location and differences.

TEXT 9: Abu

Personal pronoun I shows that it is written in the first person -...only, I presume, because I was labouring...

FIGURATIVE LANGUAGE Text 9: Dilara Text 29: Asher

Personification : -" alluring pubs" - "voluptuous river" - "summer, such as it was, is dying" - " on either sides of the fire are giant tusks, as if the fireplace we a walrus spoiling for an argument Metaphor: -" tortoise pace" -" shadow of little clitheroe castle" hyperbole: - " big names from big cities"

Use of superlatives; -best and worst line 2 present the piece in a negative way -emphasis nice light black mould Line 7 Writer used juxtaposition linking back to the inverse superlatives on line 2. -Presenting both good and bad. Black mould: Imagery -visual image allowing them to engage with the text.