Mode - spoken; Zara’s narrative is a transcript of speech.
Genre - As a transcript, the narrative displays different features of spoken language, such as paralinguistic features which help to aid the communication of ideas, as well as false starts and hesitation indicators which identify the text as a spontaneous spoken discourse.
Audience - Zara aims her narrative at people who haven’t been to Paris and thus have little, personal experience of it, as most of what she is talking about would be obvious to people who have had experiences of Parisian culture firsthand, such as people who have lived in Paris.
Purpose - To inform people who haven’t been to Paris about what it is really like. For instance, she shows that Paris’ reputation is overrated, as she says ‘you get a million people gathered round some (.) big famous painting and it (.) can never live up to (.) what it’s meant to be.’ Secondary purposes might include persuading the audience to visit Paris and entertaining.

	Created by Summer Pearce over 10 years ago

Text from the 2015 specification AQA AS and A-level Paris Anthology

Personal Narrative: Zara