Analysing Structure Flashcards
1
Q
What is structure?
A
structure is the way a text is shaped to take a reader on a journey
2
Q
What is a very basic text structure?
A
Beginning
Middle
End
3
Q
How do we analyse the opening paragraph?
A
What is it about? / What is going on?
- The setting
- The character/s
4
Q
What effects can be used throughout a text?
A
Shifts
5
Q
What shifts can take place?
A
Time
Perspective
Setting
6
Q
What shifts in time can occur in a text?
A
Flashbacks
Flashforwards
7
Q
What shifts in perspective can occur in the text?
A
- 1st person - Talking of yourself (me, I)
- 3rd person - Talking of someone else, (he, she, it, they)
- Change of narrator
- General to specific (zooming in) or Specific to general (zooming out)
8
Q
What shifts in setting can occur in a text?
A
Setting —> character
9
Q
How do we analyse the closing paragraph?
A
How has the text changed?
Link the end and the beginning
