3.1 Alan Bennett

Question 1

Genre / mode?

Answer 1

Extract from diary entry, in printed book form

Question 2

Audience?

Answer 2

Interest in Bennett and writing; Yorkshire identity; history fans; fans of Richard Griffiths; general diary readers

Question 3

Purpose?

Answer 3

Recount personal experiences and reflect on his life / memories and explain current interests; written to be published

Question 4

Vocab to describe voice? (10)

Answer 4

Confessional, conspiratorial, personal, humorous, self-deprecating, colloquial, intimate, informal, cynical, antagonistic

Question 5

Generic conventions of diaries? (6)

Answer 5

Written in first person / past tense; chronological order and dates; time conjunctions; opinions; emotive language; detail and description

Question 6

‘We scale the five-bar gate and break in’ analysis?

Answer 6

Plural pronoun, privacy of partner; connotes heist, ironic; juxtaposes, bigs up crime

Question 7

‘An illicit delight’ analysis?

Answer 7

Connotations of secrets and forbidden areas; personal observation; connotations of hedonism and pleasure

Question 8

‘The TV programme on Channel 4 was lengthy and slightly spurious’ analysis?

Answer 8

Colloquial, diary; cultural reference; time conjunction; professional and personal criticism; advanced vocabulary and idiolect

Question 9

‘Armley Park School in Leeds which my brother and I… always ran past holding our noses’ analysis?

Answer 9

Cultural reference, Bennett’s personal history; nostalgia, sibling relationship; time phrase; emotive and humourous

Question 10

‘So cold this week that I do what I haven’t done since I was in the army in Bodwin in 1954.’ Analysis?

Answer 10

Detail and description; present tense, dynamic; first person, generic convention; National Service, history; cultural reference; time, history, age, hyperbolic description of the cold

Question 11

In 2013,

Answer 11

Richard Griffiths died and the body of Richard III was exhumed