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What is dialogue?

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Conversation between two or more characters.

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What is a flashback?

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A section in a text that is set before the events of the main story.

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What is the future tense?

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A verb that describes something that will happen in the future, eg ‘they will laugh.’

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What is a narrator?

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The person who tells the story

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What is the past tense?

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A verb that describes something that happened in the past eg ‘they laughed.’

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What is point of view?

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The way a character regards events or people

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What is the present tense?

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A verb that describes something that is happening now eg ‘they laugh’ or ‘they are laughing’

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What is sequence?

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The order in which things happen

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What is setting?

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Where the events take place

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What is structure?

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The organisation of the text.

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What is a narrative?

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A written story or account

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What is a narrative voice?

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The person telling the story from their point of view

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What is a perspective?

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A particular view of something

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What is a structural feature?

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A feature that helps you to structure the text

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What is empathize?

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To understand and share someone else’s feelings

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What is perspective?

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A particular view of something

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What is a plot?

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The events in a story

18
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What is perspective?

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A particular view of something.

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What is climax?

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The most exciting point in a story.

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What is empathise?

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To understand and share someone else’s feelings.

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What is first-person perspective?

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The point of view of a character involved in the action of a story using “i”

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What is pace?

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The speed which something happens.

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What is third-person perspective?

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The point of view of someone not involved in the action pf the story using ‘he’,’she’ or ‘they’

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What is symbolism?

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The use of symbols to represent something else.

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