The mode of this text is multimodal. It consists of largely written language, but it includes dialogue, which is an aspect of spoken language.
The genre of this text is an autobiographical novel, as it is organised in chapters, and the teller of the narrative is the protagonist of all experiences.
The audience of this text is likely to be readers who are interested in reading about Miller's life and Paris itself. Her audience is definitely adults, as it features complex language, popular culture references from the 1960's and mentions of sex.
This text was written for the purpose of entertaining the reader and informing them about Paris, with a small persuasive value of convincing the reader that it is desirable to visit/study in Paris.

	Created by Summer Pearce over 8 years ago

Text from the 2015 specification AQA AS and A-level Paris Anthology