Diary - Captain Scott
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- Created on: 01-03-19 12:03
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- Diary - Captain Scott
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- Genre: The diary entry of Captain Scott's last expedition.
- Audience: Those interested by expeditions and the general public - Scott was a national hero.
- Purpose: Demonstrate the courage of him and his team as they knew they were going to die - factual account.
- Audience: Those interested by expeditions and the general public - Scott was a national hero.
- Genre: The diary entry of Captain Scott's last expedition.
- Context
- Scott was a naval officer and explorer.
- This could explain the semantic fields of war.
- Already had one successful expedition and was labelled a hero from this.
- Scott was a naval officer and explorer.
- Lexical Fields
- Pain
- 'struggled', 'dreadfully cold', 'no human being could face it'
- Doubt
- 'The weather hasn't given us a chance', 'we are nearly worn out', 'the others are still confident of getting through - or pretend to be'
- Nature
- 'Blizzard as bad as ever', 'more wind and drift', 'continuous gale'.
- War
- 'booming sound', 'marching column.
- Onomatopoei-a
- 'booming sound', 'marching column.
- Pain
- Impressions
- Repeated pattern on minor sentences in the form of expanded noun phrases that compliment all 5 senses.
- Synesthisia
- Personificatio-n of the sun.
- 'peeping shyly'
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- 'peeping shyly'
- Repeated pattern on minor sentences in the form of expanded noun phrases that compliment all 5 senses.
- 'no hunter could conceal his snare so perfectly.'
- The surrounding nature is actually smarter than any human.
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- The surrounding nature is actually smarter than any human.
- Low frequency subject specific jargon
- 'Only two pony marches from One Ton Depot.'
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- 'Only two pony marches from One Ton Depot.'
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