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Structual Fratues Flashcards

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Dialogue

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Conservation between two and more characters

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Flashback

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

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Future tense

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Future tense a verb that describes something that will happen in tue future
E.g ‘they’ will laugh

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Narrator

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The person who tells the story

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Past tense

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A verb that describes something that happened in the past

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Point of view

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The way a character regards events or people

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Present tense

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A verb that describes something that is happening now

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Sequence

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The order in which thing happen

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Setting

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Where the events take place

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Structure

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The organisation of the text

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Narrative

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A written story or account

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Narrative voice

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Person telling their story from their point of view

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Perspective

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A particular view of something

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Structural feature

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A feature that helps a structure of a text

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Dissonance

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a discordant combinations of sounds; the clash, spew and slow pang of grinding waves against the quay.

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Enjambment

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a device used in poetry where a sentence continues beyond the end of the line or verse. This technique is often used to maintain a sense of continuation from one stanza to another.

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Word choice

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sometimes called ‘register’, this is the common thread in an author’s choice of language. Authors may use words commonly associated with religion, words describing sensory experience such as touch, smell or colour or ‘mood’ words that reflect a character’s state of mind.

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Pathos

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Pathos

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Oxymoron

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Where two words normally not associated are brought together: ‘cold heat’ ‘bitter sweet’.

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Empathize

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To understand and share someone else’s feelings

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Plot

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The events in the story

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Narrow focus

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

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Wider focus

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Often deals with bigger details/setting etc

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Switch focus

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When the writer changes the focus from one character to the other and one setting to the other
What the character is thinking to what the character is doing.

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Cyclical structure

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A story ends in a similar way to how it begins

This could be through setting the actions of the character

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Climax

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The most exciting part of the story

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Anti climax

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Is a disappointing part of the story

Not as exciting as you would thought it would be

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Rising action

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Tension/action is building towards a climax

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Falling action

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Action/atmosphere starts to fall away

Often come after a climax or anti climax

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Contrast

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Is a clear difference between things

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First person perspective

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Point of view of a character involved of a story using’I’

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Pace

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The speed in which something happens

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Symbolism

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The use of symbols to represent something else

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Third person

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Perspective of the point of view someone not involved using

He, she or they

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Narrative

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A written story or account

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Narrative voice

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Person telling their story from their point of view

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Perspective

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A particular view of something

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Structural feature

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A feature that helps a structure of a text

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Dissonance

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a discordant combinations of sounds; the clash, spew and slow pang of grinding waves against the quay.

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Enjambment

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a device used in poetry where a sentence continues beyond the end of the line or verse. This technique is often used to maintain a sense of continuation from one stanza to another.

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Word choice

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sometimes called ‘register’, this is the common thread in an author’s choice of language. Authors may use words commonly associated with religion, words describing sensory experience such as touch, smell or colour or ‘mood’ words that reflect a character’s state of mind.

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Pathos

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Pathos

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Oxymoron

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Where two words normally not associated are brought together: ‘cold heat’ ‘bitter sweet’.

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Empathize

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To understand and share someone else’s feelings

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Plot

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The events in the story

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Colloquial

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of language) used in ordinary or familiar conversation; not formal or literary.

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Jargon

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Specialised language

E.g doctors, people wouldn’t understand

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First person

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A story told from the point of view of a character involved in the action, using ‘i’

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Third person

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A story told by someone not involved in the action, using

He, she, they

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(Opening) Dialogue

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The reader thrown in straight away, orientation or warning

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(Opening) Description

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Establishes the mood and atmosphere, and creates a visual picture for the reader

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(Opening) Character

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Gives the reader someone to emphasise or imagine straight away

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Opening(Mystery)

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Pulls the reader by making them know what happens next

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(Opening) Thematic statement

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

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(Opening) Action

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

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