Structural Devices Flashcards
What is repetition
A series of words repeated more than once
What is pathetic fallacy
Weather affecting the mood/tone
What is cyclical structure
Where a scene starts and ends in the same place
What is foreshadowing
An indication of something that is about to happen
What is a flashback
A structural device that interrupts the chronological order of events
What is zooming in
Going into more detail about a word or phase in a text
What is zooming out
Going into more detail about multiple words or phrases in a text
What are focus shifts
When the original objective from one subject to another
What is a wider perspective
To have a wider frame, everything within a frame
What is character insight
Learning something new about a character
What is setting
Where the story takes place
What is dialogue
Speech
What are the three sentence forms
Simple sentence
Complex sentence
Compound sentence
What is a compound sentence
Two independent sentence types
What is a simple sentence
A sentence with a subject, object and verb
