Structure Features And Terms

Question 1

Dialogue

Answer 1

Conversation between two or more characters

Question 2

Flashback

Answer 2

A section in a 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 who tells the story

Question 5

Past tense

Answer 5

A verb that describes something that happened in the past

Question 6

Point of view

Answer 6

The way a character regards events or people

Question 7

Present tense

Answer 7

A verb that describes something that is happening now

Question 8

Sequence

Answer 8

The order in which things happen

Question 9

Setting

Answer 9

Where the events take place

Question 10

Structure

Answer 10

The organisation of the text

Question 11

Narrative

Answer 11

A written story or account

Question 12

Perspective

Answer 12

A particular view of something

Question 13

Narrative voice

Answer 13

The person telling the story from their point of view

Question 14

Structural feature

Answer 14

A feature that helps structure a text

Question 15

Emphasis

Answer 15

To share and understand somebody else’s feelings

Question 16

Plot

Answer 16

The events in a story

Question 17

Narrow focus

Answer 17

The writer focusing in a specific(often small details)section of the text.

Question 18

Wider focus

Answer 18

Often deals with bigger details/setting etc

Question 19

Switch focus

Answer 19

When the writer changes there focus from one character to another or one setting to another from what a character is doing.

Question 20

Cyclical structure

Answer 20

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

Question 21

Climax

Answer 21

The most exciting part of the story

Question 22

Anticlimax

Answer 22

Disappointing or not exciting

Question 23

Rising action

Answer 23

The tension of the story is building towards the climax

Question 24

Falling action

Answer 24

The atmosphere starts to fall away often come after climax

Question 25

Contrast

Answer 25

A clear difference between things

Question 26

First person perpective

Answer 26

The point of view of the character involved in the story

Question 27

Pace

Answer 27

The speed of which something happens

Question 28

Symbolism

Answer 28

The use of symbols to represent something

Question 29

Third person perspective

Answer 29

The point of view of someone not involved in the action of the story

Question 30

Dialogued

Answer 30

Reader is thrown in without description

Question 31

Description describes scene

Answer 31

Establish mood and atmosphere

Question 32

Character introduces a characters thoughts

Answer 32

Gives the reader someone to emphasise and imagine straightaway

Question 33

Mystery a intriguing event or question is set up

Answer 33

Pull the reader in making them read more

Question 34

Thematic statement indicates ideas or themes that are significant

Answer 34

Know the reader what details to follow

Question 35

Action a physical thing happening

Answer 35

Can create immediate danger and throws reader into event.