The danger of a single story
Analyisis of Language, Form And structure.
Including context
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- Created on: 18-03-18 03:06
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- THE DANGER OF A SINGLE STORY BY ADICHIE
- STRUCTURE
- Circular structure
- Repetition of the story brings us back to the beginning
- The speech takes us chronologically through key times in the writer’s life.
- Circular structure
- CONTEXT
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose novels are inspired by Nigerian history.
- She uses her personal experiences to warn, guide and advise us all.
- STRUCTURE
- The target audience for this lecture are adults who have false image of the world around them.
- She uses academic vocabulary, such as vulnerable and incompressible, suggesting older group of people.
- Gives immediacy to the text
- Connection to the audience = Personal pronoun
- "Im a story teller"
- DECLARATIVE: To trust her - declares her authority
- LANGUAGE
- "British and American children's books"
- "All my characters were white and blue eyed, they played...."
- "They opened up new worlds for me"
- METAPHOR: Opened her eyes to other cultures
- "I realized"
- Sense of enlightenment: People can learn about her
- "Only" P7
- ADVERB: Mother said one thing, therefore, creating a single story.
- THE DANGER OF A SINGLE STORY BY ADICHIE
- STRUCTURE
- Circular structure
- Repetition of the story brings us back to the beginning
- The speech takes us chronologically through key times in the writer’s life.
- Circular structure
- CONTEXT
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a Nigerian writer whose novels are inspired by Nigerian history.
- She uses her personal experiences to warn, guide and advise us all.
- STRUCTURE
- "Im a story teller"
- Connection to the audience = Personal pronoun
- Irony/declarative
- "weren't quite as easy to find as the foreign books"
- LANGUAGE
- "British and American children's books"
- "All my characters were white and blue eyed, they played...."
- "They opened up new worlds for me"
- METAPHOR: Opened her eyes to other cultures
- "I realized"
- Sense of enlightenment: People can learn about her
- "Only" P7
- ADVERB: Mother said one thing, therefore, creating a single story.
- LANGUAGE
- "weren't quite as easy to find as the foreign books"
- "Tribal Music"
- JUXTAPOSITION
- "Mariah Carey"
- JUXTAPOSITION
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