In today's lesson, we looked at how to analyse a magazine article in depth. We had an article from Lily Allen and in this we had to pick out: rhetorical questions, personal pronouns, cliches, jargon, taboo language, swearing, formal and informal language, humor and punctuation. After we had picked all of these features, we had to explain what effect they had on the reader and why the writer of the article decided to use these. For example, the use of jargon like 'record' and 'musician' reinforces that it is an article about music. It also emphasizes the relationship with the reader because they know what the words mean, compared to a person that doesn't read music magazines. Jargon also assumes that the reader has an in-depth knowledge about music. As well as this article, I will further analyse more articles so I have an idea of what to include in my own article.
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