Structual Features

Question 1

Dialogue

Answer 1

Conversation between two or more characters

Question 2

Flashback

Answer 2

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

Question 3

Future tense

Answer 3

A verb that describes something that will happen in the future, e.g. ‘they will laugh.

Question 4

Narrator

Answer 4

The person who tells the story.

Question 5

Past tense

Answer 5

A verb that describes something that happened in the last, e.g. ‘they laughed’

Question 6

Point of view

Answer 6

The way a character regards events or people.

Question 7

Present tense

Answer 7

A verb that describes something that is happening now, e.g. ‘they laugh’ or ‘they are laughing.

Question 8

Sequence

Answer 8

The order in which things happen

Question 9

Setting

Answer 9

Where the events take place

Question 10

Structure

Answer 10

The organisation of a text

Question 11

Empathize

Answer 11

To understand and share someone else’s feelings

Question 12

Narrow Focus

Answer 12

The writer focusing on a specific (Often small details) section of the text.

Question 13

Wider focus/Perspective

Answer 13

Often deals with bigger details - setting, more than one character, etc.

Question 14

Plot

Answer 14

The events in a story.

Question 15

Switch Focus

Answer 15

When writer changes focus from one character to another. One setting to another. What a character is thinking to what a character is doing.

Question 16

Cyclical/Circular structure

Answer 16

Where a story ends in a similar way to how it begins to this could be through the setting, the action, the characters, language, atmosphere, etc

Question 17

Climax

Answer 17

The most exciting part in a story.

Question 18

Anti-Climax

Answer 18

Disappointing part of a story.

Question 19

Rising action

Answer 19

The tension/action is building towards a climax.

Question 20

Falling action

Answer 20

Where the story starts to fall away.

Question 21

Empathize

Answer 21

To understand and share someone else’s feelings

Question 22

Pace

Answer 22

The speed at which something happens

Question 23

Symbolism

Answer 23

The use of symbols to represent something else

Question 24

Slang

Answer 24

Informal words used mostly in speech within a particular social group.

Question 25

Evaluation

Answer 25

A judgement about the value of something.

Question 26

Opening dialogue

Answer 26

The reader is thrown straight in, without a warning

Question 27

Description

Answer 27

Establishes mood and atmosphere

Question 28

Character

Answer 28

Gives the reader someone to imagine

Question 29

Mystery

Answer 29

Pulls the reader in by making them want to know what happens next

Question 30

Thematic statement

Answer 30

Lets the reader know that the detail to follow fits into a wider context

Question 31

Action

Answer 31

Can create a sense of danger and throw the reader into the middle of an event