Structure Techniques Flashcards
(11 cards)
What is Narrative
perspective?
The person telling the story (first person/third person/omniscient narrator).
What is setting?
Where the action / story is set – setting can change
What are shifts in focus?
Moving our attention away from something and drawing it to something else
What are shifts in perspective?
Changes in points of view or what can be seen by different characters
What is exterior to interior?
Moving from inside to outside – or from what is going on to a person’s thoughts
What is dialouge
Speech. This can allow us to learn more about the characters who speak.
What is an order of events?
The sequence of what happens in the text
What is foreshadowing?
Hints to what might happen next
What is a flashback?
Looking at something which happened in the past.
What is zooming in?
The writer narrows our focus on something to draw our attention to it
What is cyclical structure?
The text mentions something from the beginning of the text again at the end.
