Structure Techniques

Question 1

Narrative perspective

Answer 1

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

Question 2

Settings

Answer 2

Where the action / story is set – setting can chang

Question 3

Shifts in Focus

Answer 3

Moving our attention away from the main scene and making us nervous about what is going to happen and making us really want to see in

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 (or vice versa)

Answer 5

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

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

Flashback

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 it

Question 11

Cyclical structure

Answer 11

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