Structural Features

Question 1

Narrative perspective

Answer 1

The person telling the story (first person/third person/omniscient narrator

Question 2

Setting

Answer 2

Where the action / story is set – setting can change during different scenes

Question 3

Shifting focus

Answer 3

Moving our attention away or closer

Question 4

Shifts in perspective

Answer 4

Changes in points of view or what can be seen by different characters

Question 5

Exterior to interior

Answer 5

Moving from inside to outside – or from what is going on to a person’s thought

Question 6

Dialogue

Answer 6

Speech. This can allow us to learn more about the characters who speak.

Question 7

Order of events

Answer 7

Sequence of what happens in the text

Question 8

Foreshadowing

Answer 8

Hints to what might happen next

Question 9

Flashbacks

Answer 9

Looking at something which happened in the past.

Question 10

Zooming in

Answer 10

The writer narrows our focus on something to draw our attention to i

Question 11

Cyclical structure

Answer 11

The text mentions something from the beginning of the text again at the end