Structural Features Flashcards
(11 cards)
Narrative perspective
The person telling the story (first person/third person/omniscient narrator).
Setting
Where the action / story is set – setting can change
Shifts in focus
Moving our attention away
Shifts in perspective
Changes in points of view or what can be seen by different characters
Exterior to interior
Moving from inside to outside – or from what is going on to a person’s thoughts
Dialogue
Speech. This can allow us to learn more about the characters who speak.
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.
