A-LEVEL PARIS ANTHOLOGY ENGLISH
LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE LATEST
EDITION
Things to identify in each text: - ANS-- Genre
- Intended audience
- Purpose
- Mode
- Intertextuality
- Oppositional view/model
- Representations
Different purposes of writers: - ANS-- Entertain
- Persuade
- Advise
- Analyse
- Argue
- Describe
- Explain
- Inform
- Instruct
Intended audience hints: - ANS-- Context
- Tone
- Lexis
, - Use of language
- Use of pronouns
- Layout
Possible representations: - ANS-- Journeys/travel
- Subject perspectives
- Holistic representations
- Memory
Stories Are Waiting In Paris: Key Info - ANS-Genre - video advert
Mode - multi modal (script and moving images)
Audience - young adults
Purpose - persuade you to go on the Eurostar to Paris
Representation: place of possibilities (shown by repetition of 'maybe').
: city of romance
Images used throughout are both sequential and random (showing that this could happen to the
audience whilst also encouraging use of imagination).
Stories Are Waiting In Paris: Analysis - ANS-"Narrator" - strong male voice with French accent gives him
more authority and makes it more authentic (makes it more likely for people to want to visit).
"maybe" - repetition shows limitless, open ended possibilities to entice reader with elongated "ay"
sound to mirror extensive choices.
"up" and "down" - neighbouring use of propositions adds to the dynamic feel to engage the viewer and
encourage them to imagine themselves exploring Paris.
"you" - repetition of direct address encourages viewer to imagine themselves in Paris.
"here" and "there" - spatial lexis shows choices in Paris.
"STORIES ARE WAITING" - supplies choice to appeal the viewer's vanity and sense of
excitement/adventure.
"#wheninparis" - reference to St Augustines 'when in Rome, so as the Romans do' as an attempt to make
the advert memorable.
LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE LATEST
EDITION
Things to identify in each text: - ANS-- Genre
- Intended audience
- Purpose
- Mode
- Intertextuality
- Oppositional view/model
- Representations
Different purposes of writers: - ANS-- Entertain
- Persuade
- Advise
- Analyse
- Argue
- Describe
- Explain
- Inform
- Instruct
Intended audience hints: - ANS-- Context
- Tone
- Lexis
, - Use of language
- Use of pronouns
- Layout
Possible representations: - ANS-- Journeys/travel
- Subject perspectives
- Holistic representations
- Memory
Stories Are Waiting In Paris: Key Info - ANS-Genre - video advert
Mode - multi modal (script and moving images)
Audience - young adults
Purpose - persuade you to go on the Eurostar to Paris
Representation: place of possibilities (shown by repetition of 'maybe').
: city of romance
Images used throughout are both sequential and random (showing that this could happen to the
audience whilst also encouraging use of imagination).
Stories Are Waiting In Paris: Analysis - ANS-"Narrator" - strong male voice with French accent gives him
more authority and makes it more authentic (makes it more likely for people to want to visit).
"maybe" - repetition shows limitless, open ended possibilities to entice reader with elongated "ay"
sound to mirror extensive choices.
"up" and "down" - neighbouring use of propositions adds to the dynamic feel to engage the viewer and
encourage them to imagine themselves exploring Paris.
"you" - repetition of direct address encourages viewer to imagine themselves in Paris.
"here" and "there" - spatial lexis shows choices in Paris.
"STORIES ARE WAITING" - supplies choice to appeal the viewer's vanity and sense of
excitement/adventure.
"#wheninparis" - reference to St Augustines 'when in Rome, so as the Romans do' as an attempt to make
the advert memorable.
