Structural Techniques

Question 1

Setting

Answer 1

Where it takes place

Question 2

Omniscient Narrator

Answer 2

Where the narrator is all-knowing and is everywhere

Question 3

Unreliable Narrator

Answer 3

Where the narrator’s credibility is compromised

Question 4

Sentence Length

Answer 4

How long a sentence is

Question 5

Paragraph Length

Answer 5

How long a paragraph is

Question 6

Dialogue

Answer 6

A conversation between two or more people

Question 7

Shift In Focus

Answer 7

Change in what the reader’s attention is directed towards

Question 8

Shift In Perspective

Answer 8

Change ‘lens’ through which the events and characters are viewed

Question 9

Foreshadowing

Answer 9

A warning or indication of a future event

Question 10

Order Of Events ( Which Is Usually Chronological)

Answer 10

The order in which the sections carry out

Question 11

Repetition

Answer 11

The repeating of words or phrases

Question 12

Motif

Answer 12

A particular element in the text that has symbolic significance

Question 13

Theme

Answer 13

The central topic a text treats

Question 14

Extended Metaphor

Answer 14

Refers to a comparison between two unlike things

Question 15

Cliffhanger

Answer 15

Concludes suddenly or with a thrilling plot twist

Question 16

1st Person

Answer 16

The narrator speaking about themself

Question 17

2nd Person

Answer 17

The narrator speaking to someone else (or you)

Question 18

3rd Person

Answer 18

The narrator speaking about someone else

Question 19

New Character

Answer 19

The introduction to a previously unmentioned character

Question 20

Interior Monologue

Answer 20

The thoughts passing through the protagonist(s)’s mind(s)

Question 21

Medias Res

Answer 21

Starting in the middle of the action

Question 22

Anaphora

Answer 22

Use of a word to refer back to a word used earlier in the text

Question 23

Third-Person Subjective

(Over The Shoulder) Narrator

Answer 23

A narrator that only describes events how the protagonist percieves them.