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How effectively does Pavel Ivanov use language to persuade his/her audience?

The film review about the movie ‘I now pronounce you Chuck & Larry’ written by Pavel Ivanov is well suited to its audience who the writer describes as the ‘Adam Sandler crowd’, although Ivanov does indicate that audiences who get pleasure from comical films, would probably enjoy the blatant crude humour in this movie for example the ‘dropped soap in the shower routine’ Ivanov’s implied meaning is that those who’d laugh at this type of humour have no taste and lack intelligence, as this ‘type of humour’ has intentionally been put into the movie as it is the ‘most lucid strategy’ to win over audiences

One of the purposes of the review is to denigrate the movie as an unintelligent film for those who are dim-witted, as it is full of ‘primitive weaponry of toilet humour’ and ‘gay-cliché jokes’, but at the same time Ivanov maintains a neutral stance by complimenting the movie on some of its achievements ‘subverts the gambit of any other ‘serious’ gay movie’.

The lexis used in the review is overall formal, with some elements of colloquialism such as ‘the icing on the cake’. He uses such conversational style lexis to amuse and engage his audience.

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Ivanov establishes himself with the first person singular pronoun ‘I’ to identify with readers as someone who has seen the movie thus immediately capturing the readers’ interest and trust.

He directly addresses his readers by using the second person singular pronoun ‘you’ Ivanov uses this device to draw in his readers in to the review as well as deliver a personal message to them about the film.

The writer applies a subordinate clause to give additional information about the movie to the audience. By combining the sentence with a relative clause, Ivanov’s text becomes more fluent to ...

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