English Language Analysis-Understanding Chic

"Paris was my first taste of a latin country" (line 1)

"Was" - Past tense "Taste" - personification

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"We traveled by car. I cannot remember crossing the channel" (line 3)

"Car" - simple declarative "I cannot remember" - Mental process (act of remembering) linked to genre conventions

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"I do Recall a noisy Traffic jam" (line 5)

"Recall a noisy " - Attributive Adjective

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"I was struck by the smell of baked baguettes" (line7)

"Smell of baked baguettes" - Sensory experience

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"A toddler with a blunt fringe catching my eye and slowly sucking on her lollipop. the persians were different" (line 10)

"Blunt" - stereotyping parisians "The persians were different" - 'Othering' them emphasising her difference from the parisians

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"A french man - not a guard - came forward and slapped me full in the face" (line 32)

"slapped me full in the face" - Describes parisians as violent (stereotyping)

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"Horrible man and his offending gifle" (line 40)

"Horrible man" and "offending" - this becomes an extended metaphor from the 'slap' incident

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"But my experience with the parisians is that , mentally, there is a slap instinct." (line 45 onwards)

"Mentally, there is a slap instinct" - further explores negative views of parisians and dramatic events

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"We traveled by car. I cannot remember crossing the channel" (line 3)

"Car" - simple declarative "I cannot remember" - Mental process (act of remembering) linked to genre conventions

"I do Recall a noisy Traffic jam" (line 5)

"I was struck by the smell of baked baguettes" (line7)

"A toddler with a blunt fringe catching my eye and slowly sucking on her lollipop. the persians were different" (line 10)

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