Writing Techniques Flashcards
Narrative Perspective
The person telling the story (first person/third person/omniscent narrator
Setting
Where the story is set
Shifts in focus
Moving our attention from one thing to another
Shifts in perspective
Changes in points of view or what can be seen by different characters
Exterior to interior
Moving from inside to out or in someones thoughts
Dialogue
Speech. This can allow us to learn more about the characters who speak
Order of events
Sequence of the order events happen
Foreshadowing
Hints to what might happen next
Flashback
Looking at something that happened in the past
Zooming in
The writer narrowing our focus onto something
Cylical structure
The text mentions something that happened at the beggining at the end
in media res
Starting in the middle of the action
Parrellel construction
When two lines are the same but one or more word is different but in the same word class
