The icey winds spun crisp orange leaves along the floor. I stood into the cold and made my way further along the dimly lit passage way. Rounded chippings crunched together beneath my feet. Branches from dead, sollumnn trees curved and twisted and tangled above me. The journey I'd once known as familiar, now warped, was no longer safe nor the playful place I remember.
The stones soon became marshland and wind now howling. I came to a gate hanging on a single hinge and collapsing beneath the weight of the rain: this was alien to me. I clambered onto it, squealing beneath me as though being pulled apart, the gate began to crack. I dived onto solid ground again-normality. My heart pounding, I arrived at the opening. The air was still, this land was barron. I walked on into the land I thought used to be beauty, memories from my happy childhood once occured here. Now, it was one of war-dead mans land.
Wednesday, 12 October 2011
Thursday, 22 September 2011
analysis of travel writing
It is typical of travel writing to include features that assist the reader in finding information quickly. In this particular piece of writing, a travel guide, the reader is provided with a directory. This enables the reader to glance at the directory and seek the information they want immediately rather than having to browes over the writing or find numbers for themself, taking longer. Included in this directory are subtitles and and partitioners to make the writing some what clearer and easier for the reader to follow.
This passage also contains symbols that are internationally recognisable, in this case a disabled badge, to make people travelling with disabilities notice there is information available for them. This is another technique that also helps speed the reading up.
Hyperbole is used in this piece of text to persuade the reader to visit Florida. The first couple paragraphs is to engage with the reader, spreading opinion of how good the holiday could be. The use of opinion and hightened language is used while considering all possible ages to ensure they are applying the writing to a broader audience.
The passage then goes on to the factual writing. This is set out into small short collumns and is kept very much to the point. For example the heading clearly states what that collumn is about, 'Costoms alloqences', and then goes onto simply list the allowences without any extra bits.
This passage also contains symbols that are internationally recognisable, in this case a disabled badge, to make people travelling with disabilities notice there is information available for them. This is another technique that also helps speed the reading up.
Hyperbole is used in this piece of text to persuade the reader to visit Florida. The first couple paragraphs is to engage with the reader, spreading opinion of how good the holiday could be. The use of opinion and hightened language is used while considering all possible ages to ensure they are applying the writing to a broader audience.
The passage then goes on to the factual writing. This is set out into small short collumns and is kept very much to the point. For example the heading clearly states what that collumn is about, 'Costoms alloqences', and then goes onto simply list the allowences without any extra bits.
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