Chapter 2 - Structural Techniques

Question 1

What is Structure?

Answer 1

• Defined as the arrangement and relation between elements of a literary text.

Question 2

What is a Complex Sentence?

Answer 2

• A sentence that is constructed of a subordinate clause (dependent clause) and a main clause (independent clause).
• Example: The car swerved toward Mrs. Jackson, who slipped off the pavement.

Question 3

​What is a Compound Sentence?

Answer 3

• This kind of sentence is constructed of two independent clauses, connected by a comma with a conjunction.
• Example: There used to be a real me, but, I had it surgically removed.

Question 4

What is a Declarative Sentence?

Answer 4

• A declarative sentence states a fact or argument that ends with a full stop.
• Example: There are five million people at risk.

Question 5

What is an Exclamatory Sentence?

Answer 5

• An exclamatory sentence is a more forceful version of a declarative sentence, as they tend to indicate feelings of excitement or frustration. They normally end in a full stop.
• Example: You better come here now!

Question 6

What is a Flashback?

Answer 6

• A flashback is the is an interruption in a chronological sequence of an event during an earlier occurrence.
• Example: In a story about a girl afraid of heights she, continually dwells upon the time she had fallen off a ladder.

Question 7

What is a Prolepsis?

Answer 7

• Prolepsis (flash-forward) is a scene that takes the narrative forward in time from the current point.
• Example: In a story about an unpopular student in school, he fantasizes about making the football team.

Question 8

What is an Imperative Sentence?

Answer 8

• This is the kind of a sentence that makes a direct request, command, instruction or advice.
• Example: You can go into the library however, stay clear of the teachers lounge.

Question 9

What is an Interrogative Sentence?

Answer 9

• This is a sentence that asks a direct question that ends with a question mark
• Example: What will happen as a result of this investment?

Question 10

What is Juxtaposition?

Answer 10

• The case in which two characters, ideas or places are placed side by side for the purpose of developing comparisons and contrasts
• Example: All’s fair in love and war.

Question 11

What is Repetition?

Answer 11

• The act of repeating a word or idea that has been mentioned prior in the text.
• Example: I don’t…know what your talking about.

Question 12

What is Sequence?

Answer 12

• Particular order or arrangement of a literary text.

Question 13

​What is a Simple Sentence?

Answer 13

• A sentence that consists of one clause and one subject.
• Example: The cat sat on the mat.

Question 14

What is a Triplet?

Answer 14

• A set or succession of three words used to describe the same thing.
• Example: Marilyn Munroe was talented, beautiful, but also completely damaged.

Question 15

What is Accumulation?

Answer 15

• Defined as the listing of relatable scattered points. The listing is also known as congeries.
• Example: “He schemed, he plotted, he lied, he stole, he raped, he killed, and he parked in the mother-and-child slot outside the supermarket despite having come on his own.”