Kill Two Birds With One Stone Analysis
In text B, the genre is a magazine article, the audience is younger to middle age women and the purpose of the text is to inform.
In text B, the author uses an idiom as a simple way to make a suggestion. The idiom ‘Kill two birds with one stone’ is used in response to a question regarding single parenting. This idiom is a well-known one, meaning everyone reading the response understands what she is implying, as well as forming imagery about what she is implying. The idiom stands for doing one action to solve two problems, and this idiom in question provides us with vivid imagery about a way to solve the woman’s problem. Using the noun ‘birds’ compacts both problems she has into very similar problems, as they are both described as the same thing, …show more content…
An example of this is at the end of the paragraph entitled ‘Bitter news’. This whole paragraph (a question from a reader) is written entirely in bold, making it more noticeable. However, when Virginia answers the question, the text is no longer in bold, but is in a normal text style. This helps to guide the audience into understand when the question ends and the answer starts. Without this, the text would appear very monotonous and dull, which would not attract any readers, causing many people to ignore this entire section completely. This would defeat the purpose of the article, which is to inform, as no one reading the article would mean that no one is being informed, and there is not point of the article. Another use of visual cohesion is at the start of each question, where a title is written in bold and in a bigger font. This informs a reader that this is an entirely new section, which is completely unrelated to the previous paragraphs. An example of this is the title ‘Bitter News’, which signifies the start of the article. Without this, the article would just blend into one, and it would be very
In text B, the author uses an idiom as a simple way to make a suggestion. The idiom ‘Kill two birds with one stone’ is used in response to a question regarding single parenting. This idiom is a well-known one, meaning everyone reading the response understands what she is implying, as well as forming imagery about what she is implying. The idiom stands for doing one action to solve two problems, and this idiom in question provides us with vivid imagery about a way to solve the woman’s problem. Using the noun ‘birds’ compacts both problems she has into very similar problems, as they are both described as the same thing, …show more content…
An example of this is at the end of the paragraph entitled ‘Bitter news’. This whole paragraph (a question from a reader) is written entirely in bold, making it more noticeable. However, when Virginia answers the question, the text is no longer in bold, but is in a normal text style. This helps to guide the audience into understand when the question ends and the answer starts. Without this, the text would appear very monotonous and dull, which would not attract any readers, causing many people to ignore this entire section completely. This would defeat the purpose of the article, which is to inform, as no one reading the article would mean that no one is being informed, and there is not point of the article. Another use of visual cohesion is at the start of each question, where a title is written in bold and in a bigger font. This informs a reader that this is an entirely new section, which is completely unrelated to the previous paragraphs. An example of this is the title ‘Bitter News’, which signifies the start of the article. Without this, the article would just blend into one, and it would be very