Syntactically, the sentence structure is constructed mainly of complex, mostly provided with subordinate clauses, “However, politicians on the other hand are a...” I have also used some constructive simple sentences, to convey subliminal messages, in order to emphasise the key points of the argument, “Altogether now, ‘H’ spells ‘Hypocrisy.’” I have used a range of sentence types, mainly declaratives and interrogatives, and as a result blend in well with the genre. I have also used simple additive and adversative conjunctions to join clauses, a device which I have emulated throughout my writing. Moreover the tense is present to convey the current situation, and as it’s written in 2nd person it immediately involves the audience. And so gives my editorial a logical structural argument, in which heightens my statements and opinions.
I have noticed that a key feature for broadsheet articles is the tone itself. Mixing formal lexis establishes a relationship between the writer and the reader, whilst settling on a much informative tone suitable for an educated audience. And therefore prior to this, I used several sophisticated lexical choices. “However, politicians on the other hand are a bunch of hypocritical elitists who have all been privileged to a superior education,” I emulated this personal tone by adopting an almost chatty and sardonic tone. I have emulated graphology features of my style models; large bold headline to catch the readers attention, columns and use of one main image.
Furthermore lexical cohesion is created by the semantic fields of politics and education, through hyponyms of exams or hyponym of schools. Although the writing is formal throughout, there’s also a fusion on colloquialism, which help to give my piece an almost mocking tone. ‘Hypocritical’, I used this adjective as it is a unique term in which I used constantly to describe the politicians. I used superlative, such as “privileged to a superior education.” This use of a superlative emphasises the private school education system. I also used monosyllabic lexis, such as “rich” and the familiar diminutive “poor,” contrasting rich from poor, and therefore emphasising the secondary purpose, to inform about discrimination and segregation.
The article however main require some knowledge of pragmatics, due to jargon being used. “Children were sub-divided at the age of 11,” many people would need to know the history behind this, to understand why this is being rephrased in our current education system. The reader would also need to consider familiarity with the specific meanings in the semantic fields, which may also include politician names. Phonetic representation of colloquial terms such as “damn”, and “cabinet boys”, also help to give the piece a structure and hints on humour.
Lexical cohesion is also formed throughout the text with fluidity to continue the lyrical theme and patter of phonology by using poetic and lyrical themes throughout conveying real emotion, ‘poor souls’. Rhetorical questions ‘where does the equality exist in that?” Alliteration, ‘posh private political parliament.” The use of these alliteration helps to give my my piece an almost transitive flow
As a whole I believe that my article has not just produced a statement, but also has developed a great argument, over a topic so conterversial in our current society.
