Structural Features Flashcards
Narrative perspective
The person telling the story (first person, third person, omnicient narrator)
Setting
Where the story/action is set (setting can change)
Shifts in focus
Moving our attentiom away from something.
Shifts in perspective
Changes in point of view or what can be seen by different characters.
Exterior to enterior(or vice versa)
Moving from inside to outside - or from what is going on in different peoples thoughts.
Dialogue
Speech. This allows us to learn more about the characters who speak.
Order of events
Sequence of what happens in the text
Foreshadowing
Hints to what might happen next
Flashback
Looking at what had happened in the past
Zooming in
The writer narrows our focus onto something to draw our attentiom to it.
Cyclical structure
The text that mentions something from the beginning of the text again at the end
Immedius res
Starting in the middle pf action
