Features Flashcards
(11 cards)
What is a narrative perspective?
The person telling the story (first person/third person/omniscient narrator).
What is a setting?
The place where the story/novel is set
What are shifts in focus?
Moving our attention away
What are shifts in perspective?
Changes in points of view or what can be seen by different characters
What is exterior to interior?
Moving from inside to outside – or from what is going on to a person’s thoughts
What is dialogue?
Speech. This can allow us to learn more about the characters who speak.
What is the order of events?
Sequence of what happens in the text
What is foreshadowing?
Hints to what might happen next
What is a flashback?
Looking at something which happened in the past.
What is zooming in?
The writer narrows our focus on something to draw our attention to it
What is cyclical structure?
The text mentions something from the beginning of the text again at the end
