Jaws Structure techniques Flashcards
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 is Shifts in focus?
Moving our attention away and focus on other people.
What is Shifts in perspective?
Change in points of view or what can be seen by different characters.
What is Exterior to interior (or vice versa)?
Moving from inside to outside – or from what is going on to a person’s thoughts.
What is Dialogue?
Speech. This can allow us to learn more about the characters who speak.
What is Order of events?
Sequence of what happens in the text.
What is Foreshadowing?
Hints to what happens next.
What is 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.
What is in medias res?
Starting in the middle of the action.
