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
What is a complex sentence
One independent sentence type
One dependent sentence type
What is a temporal reference
Time reference
What is a cliffhanger
A dramatic and exciting ending to a specific extract
What is climax
The most exciting or important point of something
What are time shifts
Time changes
What is tone
Cause of something
What is mood
Effect of something
What is change in tone/mood
The effect or cause changes throughout an extract
What is irony
A structural technique used to convey an opposite meaning of the original subject
