What is media res?
Starting mid action
What is a narrative?
A story
What is a list?
A list.😳😳😳😳😱😱😱😱😱
What is a narrative perspective?
The person telling the story.
What is the setting?
Where the narrative is set.
What is chronological order?
In time order
What is non-chronological order?
Mixed time order
What is a shift in focus?
A change from one scene to another. Something different the writer draws the reader’s attention to.
What is zooming in?
Focusing in on a detail.
What is zooming out?
Zooming out from a detail to a wider view (eg. Panoramic).
What is tone?
Feeling/atmosphere of text. This can change from positive to negative and vice versa.
What is dialogue?
Speech. This can allow us to learn more about the characters who speak.
What is an analepsis (flashback)?
Looking at something that happened in the past.
What is a prolepsis (looking forward?
Looking ahead to something which happens after the time period in the text.
What is a cyclical structure?
The text mentions something at the beginning of the text again at the end.
What are other techniques?
- Introduction of new character
What is an anti-climax?
When the ending is much more disappointing than the reader would expect.
What is a first person narrative?
A story based on I.
Second person on you.
Third person is he/she/it.
What is a paragraph?
What is the beginning?
The end?
What is a short sentence?
A sentence that isn’t long.🙂
