Setting Flashcards

1
Q

What is Narative perspective

A

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

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2
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Setting

A

Where the action / story is set – setting can change

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3
Q

Shift in focus

A

Moving our attention away from one thing to another

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4
Q

Shifts in perspective

A

Changes in points of view or what can be seen by different characters

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5
Q

Exterior to interior (or vice versa)

A

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

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6
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Dialogue

A

Speech. This can allow us to learn more about the characters who speak.

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7
Q

Order of events

A

Sequence of what happens in the text

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8
Q

Foreshadowing

A

Hints to what might happen next

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9
Q

Flashback

A

Looking at something which happened in the past

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10
Q

Zooming in

A

The writer narrows our focus on something to draw our attention to it

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11
Q

Cyclical structure

A

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

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