Charlotte Hobson: Black Earth City

The text I have chosen to analyse is a Travel Writing style piece, which is called Charlotte Hobson : Black Earth City.

Grammar

The style of grammar in the Travel Writing includes different sentence structures to give an effect on the reader. These sentences include complex and simple sentence structure.

The first paragraph includes mainly complex sentences, I know this by looking for one or more subordinate clauses in the paragraph. For example, "The light bulbs in the toilet were always being stolen, making the fauna in there difficult to identify; but the occasional shouts of horror from people picking their way through the darkness were testimony to existence." This is an example of a complex sentence, as it has a subordinate clause. Also, this sentence has 'but' included in it, which is a subordinating clause. The fact that Charlotte has used complex sentences in her travel writing is that it engages the reader with her thoughts and feelings. Thus, emphasising her emotions, making you feel more interested to her experience.
Charlotte has also used simple sentences to keep the reader interested, for example 'The fridge chugged like an idling truck.'

Lexis/Semantics

The travel writing uses a variety of different language techniques to engage with the audience. Charlotte has used a simile, 'The fridge chugged like an idling truck' to construct a mental image for the reader.
To create imagery, Charlotte has also used a range of adjectives to modify the noun or pronoun. For example, 'the pale sunshine,' 'bottle-green corridor' and 'the grimy lino floor.' She has used adjectives in these sentences (pale, bottle-green and grimy) to express the nouns quality, which overall exaggerates the appearance of the noun.