Structural Key Terms Flashcards
Dialogue
Conversation between two or more characters.
Flashback
A section in a text that is set before the events of the main story.
Future tense
A verb that describes something that will happen in the future.
Narrator
The person who tells the story
Point if view (Pov)
The way a character regards events or people
Present tense
A verb that describes something that is happening now
Sequence
The order in which things happen
Setting
Where the events happen
Structure
The organisation of a text.
Narrative
A written story or account
Prespective
A particular view of something
Narrative voice
The person telling the story form their point of biew
Structural feature
A feature that helps to structure a text.
Narrow focus
The writer focuses in on a specific (often small details) section of the text.
Wider focus
Often deals with bigger details - setting etc
Switch focus
When the writer changes their focus from one character to another, one setting to another, what a character is thinking to what they are doing, big details to small details etc
Cyclical (circular) structure
Where a story ends in a similar way to how it begins. This could be through the setting, action, characters etc
Climax
The most exiting part of the story.
Anti-climax
A part of the story that is not as exciting as hoped.
Rising action
The tension is building towards a climax.
Falling action
Where the action/tension starts to fall away.
Contrast.
A clear difference between 2 things
First-person perspective
The point of view of a character involved in the action of a story, using I
pace
The speed at which something happens
Third-person perspective
The point of view of someone not involved in the action of a story using ‘he’, ‘she’, or ‘they’.
