Structure

• Dialogue


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• Narration


  spoken/written account
• Juxtaposition


  Contrast side by side
• Contrast


  Type of opposition between two objects
• Sequencing


  Order of the story
• Chronology


  Order of events
• Repetition


  repeated
• Motifs


  Word/phrase/concpt/image
• Semantic fields


  group of words connected
• Foreshadowing


  Hinting something will happen in future
• flashforward, flashback


  jumping to points in time
• narrative focus


  specific perspective through which story told
• 3 main points in story

  Beginning, middle, end
• Shifts in tone, point of view, mood
• Moves from description to dialogue
• exposition


  background info within story
• complication


  catalyst/ event that kickstarts plot
• Crisis


  problem
• Climax


  highest point of tension
• denouement


  resolution
• coda


  hangs off end like a tail
• cyclical structure


  last section takes you back to beginning
• high points
• momentum of story
• moments of crisis/surprise (witholding of info)/suspense
• dramatic irony


  audience knows something characters don't
• in media res


  middle of action
• mirroring


  see something saw earlier
• echoing


  hear something heard earlier
• separation of paragraphs
• paragraph lengths
• time frame
• time markers
• dramatic pace


  speed of performance
• dramatic obstacles


  Get in way of plot= create delay/ tension
• changes in verb tense