Flemmich Webb - Book review

• Five techniques

  1 - use of cliche to involve the audience
• Voice

  Promotional

  Expositional
• Purpose

  To promote the book + encourage the audience to read the book.

  Persuasive to read the book - does he succeed?

  Do those who have read it agree? (subconscious purpose)

  Informative
• Audience?

  Assumed ignorant audience of the text

  Fans of Webb, boxing + the novel

  Those who want to read the novel
• Review, strongly conforming to genre conventions to the extent where it becomes cliche.
• Context?

  Adheres strongly to the genre conventions of reviews - almost too much that it becomes cliche.

  FW = journalist + editor

  AW = debut novel, grandfather = boxer