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Dialogue

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Conversation between two or more characters

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Flashback

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

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Future tense

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

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Narrator

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The person who tells the story

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Past tense

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A verb that describes something that happened in the past , e.g. ‘ they laughed’.

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Point of view

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The way a character regards events or people

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Present tense

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A verb that describes something that is happening now , e.g. ‘they laugh’.

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Sequence

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The order in which things happen

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Setting

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Where the events take place

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Structure

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The organisation of a text.

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Narrative

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A written story or account .

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Narrative voice

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The person telling the story from their point of view.

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Perspective

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A particular view of something.

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Structural feature

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A feature that helps to structure a text

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Climax

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The most exciting point in a story

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Empathise

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To understand and share someone else’s feelings

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First person perspective

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

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Pace

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The speed at which something happens at

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Symbolism

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The use of symbols to represent something else

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Third person perspective

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

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Declaritive

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A sentance in the form of a statement

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Exclamatory

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An exclamatory sentance expresses strong emotion , and it ends with an exclamtion mark

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Interrogative

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An interrogative sentence is usually in the form of a question

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Imperative

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An imperative sentence usuallycontains a command