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  • Front cover- use of a pun, which is funny and informal. It applies to the working class, 'May' in 'Mayhem' 
  • double spread- mise en scene of Theresa May's hand up is a proairetic code suggesting she is surrendering. 
  • The subheading under Jeremy Corbyn 'MPs look to take control', is anchoring that they're in favour towards Jeremy Corbyn and Boris Johnson 
  • The tone of the newspaper is informal, but the copy has a formal tone. Which it makes it polysemic.
  • Brexit is written is big, clear font which makes it noticeable, Hyperbolic language.
  • 'A faller at 2nd' it is joke and is a reference of housing which is meant for older working class audience 
  • The daily mirror narrativise 'brexit' as a sport for the working class, which makes politics seen as boring.
  • Puffer of east enders, 'enders Hayley glassed by thug', middle aged working class female watch soap operas. 'Glassed' is a slang that has been used
  • The readership of the Daily Mirror is 50/50 for men and women 
  • Stereotypical women are presented as a sceptical for men 
  • Represent of women in front cover of the Daily Mirror subverts Elizabeth's idea that women are to objected by men, also women are represent as vulnerable and weak 
  • representation is a construction of reality 
  • Mayhem and chaos is an intertexuality of war 
  • Strap-line of the daily mirror is continuing the analogy of war 
  • Pop culture reference to the lord of the ring  which a intertextuality, which has a main stream appeal 
  • Alliteration of Theresa May makes her seem like a toddler 
  • Binary Oppression of male and female, With Johnson and Corbyn teaming up against May 
  • Shambles can mean Slaughter house, which can be going happening   
















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