‘The Last Expedition‘ - Captain Robert Scott

Question 1

Genre

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Diary/Travel writing/Historical account/Memoir

Question 2

Purpose

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Document journey, emotionally express failure camaraderie etc, Inform and memorialise suffering and heroism

Question 3

Audience

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Intended private (family, personal), Later addressed to British public and official bodies (posthumous), Historians and expeditioners

Question 4

Structure and form

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Chronological entries, more developed and realistic, first person plural into third person, varied spontaneous fragmented sentences

Question 5

Language features

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Juxtaposition, semantic field, symbolism, references, emotive language

Question 6

Grammatical features

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Declaratives, Exclamatories, First person plural, Past and present tenses, Fragments and elliptical structures, subordinate clauses

Question 7

Spoken features

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Written but mimics spoken dialogue: direct address, confessional tone, emotional appeals, ellipses, phatic expressions

Question 8

Tone/Register

Question 9

Context

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1912