Technique Cheat Sheet (Short Story/Novel Excerpt)

Question 1

Use of Perspective- what are the different perspectives you can talk about

Answer 1

• limited or omniscient
• 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th
• Retrospective or present (consider tense)
• Are they a reliable narrator
• Specially talk about the other elements of their perspective: child, adult, political, working class, anxious etc

Question 2

Imagery & Figurative devies

Answer 2

• Metaphor
• Simile
• Personification
• Symbols
• Motifs

Question 3

Setting and Characterisation

Answer 3

State these and how they have done it

Question 4

Chronology

Answer 4

• Linear
• Fragmented/Vignettes
• Analepsis/Flashback

Question 5

Dialogue and TONE and the final one

Answer 5

Repetition