Structural Features Flashcards
Narrative
The story
Narrative perspective
The person telling the story (third person/omniscient narrator).
Setting
Where the action is set - can change
Shifts in perspective
Changes points of view
Shifts in focus
Moving attention away from one thing to another
Exterior to interior (or vice versa)
Moving from inside to outside - or from what is going on to a person’s thought
Dialogue
Speech between characters.
Order of events
Sequence of what happens in the text
Foreshadowing
Hints to what might happen next
Flashback
Looking at something which happened in the past.
Zooming in
The writer narrows our focus on something to draw our attention to it
Cyclical structure
The text mentions something from the beginning of the text again at the end.
In medias res
Starting in the middle of the action
