'The Most Beautiful Walk in the World'- John Baxter

Question 1

How is clarity emphasised throughout the text?

Answer 1

Repeated imperatives and short syntax

Question 2

What is the genre?

Answer 2

Memoir/ travel guide

Question 3

Who is the audience?

Answer 3

Literature travel/ walking enthusiasts, catering to more older readers.

Question 4

What is the purpose?

Answer 4

Didactic (intending to teach), inform, entertain

Question 5

What is the mode?

Answer 5

Written

Question 6

What is the journey?

Answer 6

Double Journey

Question 7

What is the perspective?

Answer 7

Outsider with insider knowledge as he has lived in Paris since 1989.

Question 8

How does Baxter represent Paris?

Answer 8

Through the view of a pedestrian and demonstrates walking to be peace and observatory

Question 9

Repeated techniques

Answer 9

Low frequency lexis, complex grammar and a formal register

Question 10

Summarisation of the text

Answer 10

Baxter sets off with unsuspecting tourists in tow on the trail of Paris’s legendary artists and writers of the past. Along the way, he tells the history of Paris through a brilliant cast of characters: the favorite cafés of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and James Joyce; Pablo Picasso’s underground Montmartre haunts; the bustling boulevards of the late-nineteenth-century flâneurs; the secluded “Little Luxembourg” gardens beloved by Gertrude Stein; the alleys where revolutionaries plotted; and finally Baxter’s own favorite walk near his home in Saint-Germain-des-Prés.