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Samuel Pepys Diary - Coggle Diagram
Samuel Pepys Diary
summary
diary dictating the events of the Great fire of London, describes everyday life and the events. Published in the 19th century
Genre- Diary
Mode- Written,
(intended)Audience- Pepys' private paper,
Purpose- to gain a greater understanding of the events in someone who has experienced the events
Context- 17th century, historical event, late modern English
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of the fire and did not appreciate the threat it posed, with the later passages when he has realised its
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LEXIS AND SEMANTICS
archaic language (words that are no longer in common use and grammatical language or rarely used) "night-gown" - "staid"
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Discourse - narrative voice is 1st person, talking through the event through his own eyes. follows the schema of a typical diary, well planned and the conventions are very complex - shows his level of education and status
Grammatics
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Use of Complex Declarative Sentences - 'So I rose, and slipped on my night-gown, and went to her window; and thought it to be on the back side of Marke-lane at the farthest, but being unused to such fires as followed...'
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Parenthesis - (who it seems, are related to them) - extends the knowledge of the reader.
Exclamative then interrogative sentence - 'Lord! What can I do?' - shows the shock/horror/fear of the writer.
statistics
pepys uses statistics to validate his message. He uses numerical values such as " above 300 houses" and proper nouns like " London Bridge" and " Sir. J Robinson" - the purpose of these are to evaluate the damage of the fire and place the events in the contex. Pepys may have been especially aware to include these in case his diary ever was published - although this was never his intention, he left his diary to be found, and has ever since been used as a historical source.
evokes an emotional response as he recollects " the poor pigeons... they burned their wings". The pre modifying adjective ' poor' creates a sense of pity, accelerated by the plosive alliteration. the imagery of 'burned wings' is rather unsettling, as it creates a juxtaposing image of the power of nature and the fragility of it