The Fire Of London - Sammuel Pepy
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- The Fire Of London - Samuel Pepys' Diary
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- Genre: Diary entry of the Great Fire Of London
- Audience: Those interested in British History of Samuel Pepy
- Purpose: To educate and give an accurate representation of what 16th Century London was like.
- Audience: Those interested in British History of Samuel Pepy
- Genre: Diary entry of the Great Fire Of London
- Context
- 16th Century London
- Plague
- Poverty
- No Hygiene, 1/3 died before 16
- Dangerous, Church bells rang curfew
- No form of transport
- 16th Century London
- Samuel Pepy
- Member of Paliarment
- Affairs
- Poor but rich relatives
- Extensive education
- Continuously using Proper nouns, links to how he became wealthy - through having rich relatives.
- 'The Duke of York'
- 'Lord Arlington'
- Archaic Language
- ''for aught I see'
- 'whereof my old schoolfellow'
- Imagery
- Violent Verbs
- 'Burning'
- 'driving'
- noun phrases
- 'horrid malicious bloody flame'
- Hyperbole because he knew it would be read by many.
- 'horrid malicious bloody flame'
- Violent Verbs
- Syntax
- compound complex sentences
- Shows advanced education
- compound complex sentences
- Lexical fields of war
- Links to time in the Navy
- war jargon
- 'driving into the city'
- war jargon
- Links to time in the Navy
- Low Frequency Jargon
- 'wing mighty high'
- 'Endeavouring to quench it'
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