Notes on Voices for Mock

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Created on: 30-12-20 10:26

Charlie Brooker: Too Much talk for one planet: why I'm reducing my word emissions"

Born in 1971, from Oxford
Audience = older generations, readers of the guardian, his fans
Purpose = to entertain, to inform of his time away
Neologism = a new word (wordstorm)
Extended metaphor
Voice = confrontational, wry

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Ian Birrell: 'As gay people celebrate, the treatment of the disabled just gets worse'

Writes for the I, focuses on prejudice. Has a disabled son.
Audience = fans, readers of the I (educated) and those interested in disability
Parallel structures - title
Purpose = to raise an issue/to inform
Voice = regretful/disappointed/reflective

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Maya Angelou: Mom et Me et Mom

American, discriminated against for being black.
Vivian sent her kids away when Maya was 1, lived with grandparents.
Gutteral language
Change in register - formal around her mum
Juxtaposition between her + her mums life
intertextual reference 'Rooseve

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BBC1 Panorama interview between Martin Bashir and Princess Diana

Context - Diana = peoples princess, was surrounding rumours around the royal couple of a divorce/affair. Charles and Camilla
Audience - 15 million, royal family fanatics, everyone
Purpose = create a role for herself, air her side, entertain, inform
Str

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Jay Leno's interview with President Obama (transcript)

2016 presidential election got 69.5 million votes which is largest tally ever
The show is Americas longest running talk show
Purpose = to reassure, to inform, to entertain (not all political)
Audience - Americans, interest in the embassy
Phatic talk to le

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David Seidler: The Kings Speech

1936, brother gave up the throne to marry a divorced American.
George had to overcome his stammering to lead his country through WW2
Audience - royal family enthusiasts, interest in history
Equal QA format
Eliptical phrasing - colloquial
Sticomythia

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John F Kennedy's Inaugural Address in Washington on January 20, 1961

Born in 1917, as US entered WW1 and assisinanated 1963.
Speech was live - addressed people all over the world
familiar collocation - help them help themselves
lots of metaphor
antithesis 'war' and 'peace
voice - introduction, change, reassurance

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Colonel Tim Collins to 1st Battalion, Royal Irish Regiment, in Iraq in 2003

To the RIR in 2003 before going to war in Iraq
Purpose - to inspire/motivate/rally
Audience has changed, now historians etc
Lots of imperatives
Biblical referencing - Mark of Cain
Monosyllibic words
Voice - inspirational, persuasive, somber, reason, c

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