Text 2 - Mile by Mile London to Paris

Mile by Mile London to Paris

R. Piggott and M. Thompson

Page 12-15 of AQA AS and A-Level English Language and Literature Anthology: Paris

The Golden Arrow was a train which went from London to Dover and Calais to Paris from 1926 till 1971

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Attitude to Paris

Audience and Purpose
  • Paris is 'luxurious and elegant'
  • Connected to the outside world
  • Holds many stories of both great culture and history
  • To inform
  • People interested in trains
  • For the experts

Lang/ Lit features

Structure
  • Anaphoric reference - 'swallowed'
  • parallel phrasing - 'luxurious and elegant'
  • Comparative - 'bigger', 'grander'
  • chronological order of events
  • Images plain and simple - hard to understand

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