Structural Features Flashcards

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Focus shift

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The way you direct the readers attention

Zoom in and out to show depth

Perspective change (birds eye view)

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Repetition

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Repeating a theme or idea to foreshadow or create tension

Or to create a emotional response e.g death referencess

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Flash backs

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Time shifts to past memories to create tension or foreshadow future

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Pace

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Speeding up with long complex sentences

Slowing down with short sentences

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Linear structure

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Organised chronologically

Build up > climax > resolution

Events described in order of when they happened

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Non-linear structure

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Non chronological order

Flash backs

Time shifts

Dramatic movement to start

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Perspective

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1st or 3rd person

Bias narrator

Able to hold back details

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Cyclic stucture

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Ending of story mirrors the start or opening

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Freyrag pyramid structure

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Exposition > climax > denouement

Rising action and falling action

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Sentence types

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Complex , compound , simple

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