Structural Key Terms

Question 1

Dialogue

Answer 1

Conversation between two or more characters.

Question 2

Flashback

Answer 2

A section in a text that is set before the events of the main story.

Question 3

Future tense

Answer 3

A verb that describes something that will happen in the future.

Question 4

Narrator

Answer 4

The person who tells the story

Question 5

Point if view (Pov)

Answer 5

The way a character regards events or people

Question 6

Present tense

Answer 6

A verb that describes something that is happening now

Question 7

Sequence

Answer 7

The order in which things happen

Question 8

Setting

Answer 8

Where the events happen

Question 9

Structure

Answer 9

The organisation of a text.

Question 10

Narrative

Answer 10

A written story or account

Question 11

Prespective

Answer 11

A particular view of something

Question 12

Narrative voice

Answer 12

The person telling the story form their point of biew

Question 13

Structural feature

Answer 13

A feature that helps to structure a text.

Question 14

Narrow focus

Answer 14

The writer focuses in on a specific (often small details) section of the text.

Question 15

Wider focus

Answer 15

Often deals with bigger details - setting etc

Question 16

Switch focus

Answer 16

When the writer changes their focus from one character to another, one setting to another, what a character is thinking to what they are doing, big details to small details etc

Question 17

Cyclical (circular) structure

Answer 17

Where a story ends in a similar way to how it begins. This could be through the setting, action, characters etc

Question 18

Climax

Answer 18

The most exiting part of the story.

Question 19

Anti-climax

Answer 19

A part of the story that is not as exciting as hoped.

Question 20

Rising action

Answer 20

The tension is building towards a climax.

Question 21

Falling action

Answer 21

Where the action/tension starts to fall away.

Question 22

Contrast.

Answer 22

A clear difference between 2 things

Question 23

First-person perspective

Answer 23

The point of view of a character involved in the action of a story, using I

Question 24

pace

Answer 24

The speed at which something happens

Question 25

Third-person perspective

Answer 25

The point of view of someone not involved in the action of a story using ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘they’.