Samuel Pepys' Diary (1666)
Mind map of Pepys' Diary, mainly focusing on CAMP and the 5 Language Levels
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- Samuel Pepys' Diary
- Context
- Restoration era
- Only 50% of the population can read and write, mainly the wealthy
- Pepys was close to the King and is one of the key writers of that period
- The Great Fire of London - second tragedy in Charles 2nd's reign, first being the Great Plague a year prior
- Audience
- Originally, himself, as it was not expected to be published
- Later on, historians
- Mode
- Written
- Purpose
- To reminisce and remember the event
- Grammar (how individual words are structured, i.e verbs, adjectives)
- Non-standardised grammar, due to the time period (see words like "hath" and "loth")
- No official spellings for words (see "oyle" and "staid")
- Hyphenated street names (see "Canning-street" and "Lumbard-street")
- Discourse (the structures in the full text)
- Inverted syntax - where the usual structure of words are changed (see "Soon as dined, I and Moone away")
- Ellipsis (see "Soon as dined" and "he home, and I to Paul's Wharf")
- Fronted conjunction (see "So I...")
- Syndetic list (see "and all on fire, and flaming at once; and a horrid noise that flames made...")
- Lexis and Semantics (words and their meanings)
- "2nd (Lord's day)" - shows it's a diary, Lord's day is Sunday, very religious time period
- "parson" - vicar
- "like a man spent" - tired
- "a shower of fire drops" - metaphor, meaning embers
- Context
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