Text 12: Blurb on the back on the book ‘Silver Linings
Playbook’
Imagine that your life is a film directed by God. A romcom, obviously, complete with happy-ever-after ending. Before the credits roll, there will, of course, be tears, tantrums, and misunderstandings, but you know you'll get there - and get your girl - in the end.
Welcome to Pat's world.
It's a world of silver linings and true love, but also a world where God makes movies and Kenny G lurks in your attic - and when Pat inadvertently befriends the tragic Tiffany, he begins to question whether or not he might juts have got the entire genre wrong.
Audience: It is sort of a love story but it has a twist, so
anyone who is interesting in reading those sorts of books.
Purpose: To intrigue people who pick up the book and make
them interested to buy the book and find out what happen in the story.
Format: a blurb.
Interesting language features: It is very vague in how it describes the story,
giving away bits of the story that you want to string together to work out the
whole story. It also leaves a bit of suspense at the end, to make the
reader want to carry on reading.
How does this text exert power: It doesn't give a lot away-this
puts the reader kind of under the control of the author because they want to
read on and the blurb has been written so that the reader wants to keep going.
Still haven't seen this film/read this book, but:
ReplyDelete- Where would you place this text on our spoken/written continuum?
I think i would place this kind of in the middle but slightly more towards written, because when you read it its like someone is speaking to you because of the long, extended sentences but there is lots of words like 'inadvertently' which you wouldn't say normally.
DeleteCertainly the larger range of polysyllabic vocabulary marks it as a written text I'd say - lots of long, hypotactic sentences to boot as well.
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