Structural Terms / Features

Question 1

Explain what a Dialogue is

Answer 1

A conversation between two or more characters

Question 2

Explain what a flashback is

Answer 2

A section in a text that is set before the events of the main story

Question 3

Explain what future tense is

Answer 3

A verb that describes something that will happen in the future
E.g. ‘they will laugh’

Question 4

Explain what a narrator is

Answer 4

The person who tells the story

Question 5

Explain what past tense is

Answer 5

A verb that describes something that happened in the past

E.g. they laughed’

Question 6

Explain what a point of view is

Answer 6

The way a character regards events or people

Question 7

Explain what present tense is

Answer 7

A verb that describes something that is happening now

E.g. ‘they are laughing’

Question 8

Explain what a sequence is.

Answer 8

The order in which things happen

Question 9

Explain what a setting is

Answer 9

Where the events take place

Question 10

Explain what structure is

Answer 10

The organisation of a text

Question 11

Explain what a narrative is

Answer 11

A written story or account

Question 12

Explain what a perspective is

Answer 12

A particular view of / on something

Question 13

Explain what a narrative voice is

Answer 13

A person telling the story from their point of view

Question 14

Explain what a structural feature is?

Answer 14

A feature that helps structure a text

Question 15

What is meant by a chronological order

Answer 15

In date or time order

Question 16

Define prioritised

Answer 16

The most important facts first

Question 17

Define what is meant by empathise

Answer 17

To understand and share someone else’s feelings

Question 18

Define what a plot is

Answer 18

The events in a story

Question 19

Define what narrow focus is?

Answer 19

The writer focusing on a specific (often small details) section of the text.

Question 20

Define what a wider focus/perspective is

Answer 20

Often deals with bigger details-setting or character.

Question 21

Define what a switch focus is

Answer 21

When the writer changes their focus from one character to another, or one setting to another, what a character is thinking to what a character is doing, big details to small detail.

Question 22

Define what cyclical/circular structure is

Answer 22

Is where a story ends in a similar way to how it begins this could be through the setting, the action the characters, language choice, atmosphere etc.

Question 23

Define what climax is

Answer 23

The most exiting part of the story

Question 24

Define what anticlimax is

Answer 24

The disappointing part of the story that isn’t that exiting as you hopped.

Question 25

Define what rising action is

Answer 25

Its where the tension/excitement/action of the story is building towards the climax

Question 26

Define what Falling action is

Answer 26

This is where the rising action of the story starts to fall away this often comes up after a climax of a anticlimax

Question 27

Define what contrast is

Answer 27

The clear difference between things

Question 28

Define what empathising is.

Answer 28

To understand and share someone else’s feelings

Question 29

First person perspective

Answer 29

The point of view of a character involved in action of a story, using ‘I’

Question 30

Define what pace is

Answer 30

The speed at which something happens

Question 31

Define what symbolism is

Answer 31

The use of symbols to represent something else

Question 32

Define what third person perspective is

Answer 32

The point of view of someone not involved in action of a story, using ‘he’ or ‘they’

Question 33

What is Narrative perspective

Answer 33

The point of view in which a story is told. (E.g. first person)

Question 34

Define a genre

Answer 34

Its a category of literature

Question 35

Opening:

Whats the effect of dialogue

Answer 35

The reader is thrown straight in, without orientation or warning

Question 36

Opening:

Whats the effect of description

Answer 36

Establishes mood and atmosphere, and creates a visual picture for the reader.

Question 37

Opening:

Whats the effect of starting with introducing a character

Answer 37

Gives the reader someone to empathise with or imagine straight away.

Question 38

Opening:

Whats the effect of having mystery or an intriguing event or question at the beginning

Answer 38

Pulls the reader in by making them want to know what happens next

Question 39

Opening:

Whats the effect of having a thematic statement that indicates what ideas of themes are significant

Answer 39

Lets the reader know that the detail to follow fits into a wider context.

Question 40

Opening:

Whats the effect of having an action or something that has a physical description of something happening.

Answer 40

Can create a sense of immediate danger and throw the reader into the middle of an event.