Samuel Pepys Diary

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  • Created on: 30-01-24 20:27
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  • Samuel Pepy's Diary
    • Gramps
      • Genre-Diary
      • Register-Colloquial/informal
      • Audience-Himself/Nobody
      • Mode-Written
      • Pupose-To inform
      • Subject-Fire of London
    • Colloquialism
      • Lots of commas
        • "So I rose,and slipped on my night gown,and went to her window"
        • feels talky
          • rushed
      • Long compound senteces
      • "So I rose,and slipped on my night gown,and went to her window"
    • Pragmatics
      • A branch of linguistics dealing with language in use and the contexts in which it is used in
      • You need to know that London the city was small with all the steerts close together
        • most buildings made with timber frame and thatched
    • Pepy and Women
      • "she might fine"
        • object
        • idiocy
      • "he cried like a fainting women"
        • Seen as weak and scared
      • Vs men
        • "the Handsome man"
    • Personification
      • "fire running"
      • "fire rage"
      • "horrid malicious bloody flame"
      • Makes the fire powerful and inescapable
    • archaic language
      • "hath"
      • "loth"
      • "therof"
    • Contents
      • Combination of narrative observation and personal opinion
      • Four detailed paragraphs
        • second para feeling of calm
        • third he seems dismissive of the fire
          • "we were in great trouble and disturbance at this fire"
        • fourth He has become panicked
        • Chronological
      • last para deviates (more literacy register)
    • last paragraph
      • Lexical  set of burning and ruin empahsising the attitude of despair
        • "fire"
        • "flame"
        • "cracking"
          • onomatepia
        • "ruine"
    • Context
      • Pepy part of upper class
        • detached perspective
          • when peoples houses are buring down hes having dinner

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