Structural devices to learn

Question 1

What’s a Flashback/flashforward?

Answer 1

Set earlier or later than the main
narrative

Question 2

Links between the beginning and ending

Answer 2

Write about a narrative link
between the start and end of a text. You can mention things like how the characters or setting changes and talk about why / the writers intentions of that and the effect on the reader

Question 3

Link between paragraphs

Answer 3

A recurring idea, character or
object in two or more paragraphs to emphasize the importance

Question 4

Shift in focus

Answer 4

The change of focus in or between paragraphs

Question 5

Zooming in and out

Answer 5

The narrowing or widening of the
narrative focus.

Question 6

What’s Narrative voice?

Answer 6

1st / 2nd / 3rd person

Question 7

What’s Direct speech?

Answer 7

The speech of a character in “”

Question 8

What’s Tense?

Answer 8

Past, present, future

Question 9

What’s Foreshadowing?

Answer 9

An advance hint of what is to come later

Question 10

What’s Chronological structure?

Answer 10

Arranged in the order of time

Question 11

What’s a Cyclical structure?

Answer 11

Ends where it begins / begins at the end. This is usually used by the writer to emphasize a meaning

Question 12

What’s Repitition?

Answer 12

A word or phrase that is used more than once

Question 13

What’s a Triple?

Answer 13

Three adjectives or phrases used to describe something

Question 14

What’s Juxtoposition?

Answer 14

Two things placed together to highlight the
contrast between them

Question 15

What’s Anaphora?

Answer 15

The repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of successive clauses (within a few lines like a short paragraph)

Question 16

What’s Listing?

Answer 16

A number of connected items written one after the other ( usually to emphasise a particular quality)

Question 17

What’s the Exposition?

Answer 17

Introduction of background information on characters, events or settings to help engage the reader

Question 18

What’s the Climax?

Answer 18

The most intense point in the development of the narrative

Question 19

What’s a Simple sentence?

Answer 19

Contains one clause with a subject and verb (a sentence that can stand on its own)

Question 20

What’s a Compound sentence?

Answer 20

Contains two independent clauses that
are related and joined with a conjunction (2 sentences that can stand on their own but joined together with with a conjunction like: but, yet, so, and, etc)

Question 21

What’s a Complex sentence?

Answer 21

Contains one or more subordinate clause (a sentence that can stand on its own connected to a sentence that cannot stand on their own)

Question 22

What’s an Impact sentence / Fragment?

Answer 22

Contains three or less words (calling it this is better than a short sentence)