Strture Techniquesin texts Flashcards
(10 cards)
What is a Narrative perspective?
The person telling the story (first person/third person/omniscient narrator)
What is Setting?
Where the action/story is set-
setting can change
What is Shifts in focus?
Moving our attention away and back onto something else
What is Exterior to interior (or vice versa)
Moving from inside to outside-or 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 Order of Events?
Sequence of what happens in the text
What is Foreshadowing?
Hints to what might happen next in the text
What is Flashback?
Looking at something which happened in the past.
What is Zooming in?
The writer narrows our focus on something lto draw our attention to it
Cyclical structure
The text mentions something from the beginning of the text again at the end
