Maya Angelou
Explore the ways in which Maya Angelou creates a sense of voice as she writes about an important lunch engagement she had with her mother and its consequences.
In your answer you must consider linguistic and literary features, drawing upon your knowledge of genre conventions and context.
Use the following terms/concepts:
Register/Tenor
Gallicism
Sentence types
Comic effects and humour
Lexis
Field
Direct speech
Irony
Metonymy
Narrative techniques
Structure/focus of each paragraph
Genre conventions
Explore the following contextual factors:
Americanisms
Generational gap/conflict
Civil Rights movement
America in the 1970s
the text is mom and me. page 12 to 13.