Structural Terms Flashcards
Dialouge
Conversation between 2 or more characters
Flashback
A section in a text that is set before the events of the main story
Future tense
A verb that describes something that will happen in the future, e.g “they will laugh”
Narrator
The person who tells the story
Past tense
A verb that describes something that happened in the past, e.g “they laughed”
Point of view
The way a character regards events or people
Present tense
a verb that describes that is happening now, e.g “the laugh” or “they are laughing”
Sequence
The order in which things happen
Setting
Where the events take place
Structure
The organisation of the text
Narrative voice
The narrators perspective in the story
Structural feature
A feature that helps to structure the text
Narrative
A written story or account
Perspective
A particular view of something
Empathize
To understand and share
Narrow focus
The writer focusing on a specific (often small details) section of the text
Wide perspective/ focus
Often deals with bigger details (setting, more than one character, etc.)
Switch focus
When the writer changes there focus from 1 character to another, 1 setting to another, what a character is thinking to what a character is doing
Cyclical structure (circular)
Where a story ends in a similar way to how it begins, this could be through the setting, the action, the characters, language choice, etc.
Climax
The most exiting part of the story
Anti-climax
A disappointing part of the story where its not as exciting as you hoped
Rising action
Where the tension/ action is rising to an exciting point of the story
Falling action
The mood of the story starts to fall away/ get mundane
Contrast
A clear difference between two things
