7.1 Rainier (done) Flashcards
(13 cards)
Genre / mode?
Online article on the Nat Geo website; first person news account; reportage; crafted; partly spoken / read aloud
Audience
American readership; interest in natural disasters; fans of Rainier; ties to Indonesia; Western audience; those involved in the event
Purpose?
Educate and inform, entertain, first hand account
Ambitious vocab for voice?
Distressed, hyperbolic, anguished, futile, disturbed, desensitised, patriotic, impartial, ominous, detached
Reportage
Factual description of an event
Generic conventions of reportage
Opinions, descriptions, statistics, hypophora
‘Hiroshima after the atomic bomb. It’s totally destroyed.’
Cultural reference; context; short declarative; simile, Western perspective; hyperbolic, nuclear warfare; power of nature
‘Exposed bodies… lying around, decaying’
Semantic field of death; semantic field of neglect; present tense, happening now; passive voice
‘Very, very appreciative that we are here.’
Intensifiers, emphasis on gratitude; groups himself with US
‘Survivors are refugees, squatting in makeshift camps’
Subverts expectations of survival; present tense, emotive; passive voice; semantic field of poverty + desperation
‘People are dying because they are unable to get this basic medical attention.’
Passive voice, helplessness; shock + agony, despite aid
‘The horror of this place remind me of a Biblical disaster story… sketches of Hieronymus Bosch.’
Memotomy; detached tone; religious reference, American audience, Christian, political, military; metaphorical, destruction; exophoric references; parentheses after, classification
‘I have to be careful I don’t step on a corpse’
Necessity, experience; implies how common they are, horror; grotesque imagery, juxtaposes expectations of death / treatment of dead
