Structural Features

Question 1

Dialogue

Answer 1

Conversation between two or more charachters

Question 2

Flashback

Answer 2

A section in text that is set before the events of the main story

Question 3

Future tense

Answer 3

A verb that describes something that will happen in the future

Question 4

Narrator

Answer 4

The person that tells the story

Question 5

Past tense

Answer 5

A verb that describes something that happens in the past

Question 6

Point of view

Answer 6

The way a character regards events of people

Question 7

Present tense

Answer 7

A verb that describes something that is happening now e.g. ‘laugh’

Question 8

Sequence

Answer 8

The order in which things happen in

Question 9

Setting

Answer 9

Where the event take place

Question 10

Structure

Answer 10

The organization of text

Question 11

Narrative

Answer 11

A writen story account

Question 12

Perspective

Answer 12

A particular view of someone

Question 13

Narrative voice

Answer 13

The person telling the story from their point if view

Question 14

Structural features

Answer 14

A feature that helps to structure a text

Question 15

Empathize

Answer 15

To understand and share someones feelings

Question 16

Plot

Answer 16

The events in a story

Question 17

Structual features

Answer 17

A feature that helps structure a text

Question 18

Narrow focus

Answer 18

The writer focusses on a specific (often small details) section of the text

Question 19

Wider perspective/focus

Answer 19

Often deals with bigger details-setting etc

Question 20

Switch focus

Answer 20

When the writer changes the focus from one character to another, one setting to another, what a character is thinking or doing and big details to small details etc

Question 21

Cyclical structure (circular)

Answer 21

Where a story ends in a similar way to how it begins this could be through the setting, action, the characters, language choice etc

Question 22

Climax

Answer 22

The most exiting part of the story

Question 23

Anti climax

Answer 23

A part of the story that isnt as good as you hoped and not so exiting

Question 24

Rising action

Answer 24

Tension/excitement is the building of the story towards the climax

Question 25

Falling action

Answer 25

Where the excitement of the story starts to move/fall away

Question 26

Contrast

Answer 26

A clear difference between things

Question 27

First person perspective

Answer 27

The point of view of a character involved in the action of a story using ‘i’

Question 28

Pace

Answer 28

The speed at which something happens

Question 29

Symbolism

Answer 29

The use of symbols to represent something else

Question 30

Third person perspective

Answer 30

The point of view of someone not involved in the action of a story using ‘he’, ‘she’ or they

Question 31

Dialogue effects

Answer 31

The reader is thrown in, without orientation or warning

Question 32

Description effects

Answer 32

Establishes mood and atmosphere, and creates a visual picture for the reader

Question 33

Character: introducing a characters thoughts. Effects

Answer 33

Gives the reader someone to emphasise with or imagine straightaway

Question 34

Mystery. Effects

Answer 34

Pulls reader in by making them want to know what happens next

Question 35

Thematic statement effects

Answer 35

Lets the reader know that the detail to follow fits into a wider context

Question 36

Action effects

Answer 36

Can create a sense of immediate danger and throw the reader into the middle of an event