Structure Flashcards
Dialogue
Conversation between to 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
e.g ‘they will laugh’
Narrator
The person who tells the story
Past Tense
A verb that describes something that happened in the past
e.g ‘they laughed’
Point of View
The way a character regards events or people
Present Tense
A verb that describes something that is happening now
e.g ‘they laugh’ or ‘they are laughing’
Sequence
The order in which things happen
Setting
Where the events take place
Structure
The organisation of a text
Narrative
A spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
Narrative Voice
The person telling the story from their point of view
Perspective
A particular view of something
Structural Feature
A feature that helps to structure a text
Narrow focus
The writer focusing on a perspective (often small details) section on the text
Wider focus
Often deals with better details /setting etc.
Switch focus
When the writer changes focus from one character to another. From what a character is thinking to what a character is doing
Cyclical structure
A story ends in a similar way to how to begins. This can be from the setting/ character action etc.
Climax
The most exciting part of the story
Anti-climax
Not exciting
Rising action
The tension of the story builds up to the climax
Falling action
The mood of the story starts to fall away
Empathize
To understand and share some else’s feeling
First-person perspective
The point of view pf a character involved in the action of a story using ‘I’
