Autumn 1 - Structure - English Terms

• Exposition 


  Outline of character and setting
• Conflict 


  Something that disrupts the story
• Rising Action


  Events that build up to the climax
• Climax 


  The part the story builds towards
• Falling action


  Events that lead to the end
• Resolution


  The end of the story
• Foreshadowing


  Hints about what happens later
• Flashback


  Going back in time in the story
• Paragraph


  New time, topic, place or person
• Juxtaposition


  Two contrasting ideas/images
• First Person


  Writing using I and we
• Third person


  Writing using she/they
• Omniscient


  All knowing narrator
• Cliff - hanger


  When the story is left unresolved
• Cyclical


  A story that ends how it began
• Pathetic Fallacy


  Giving emotions to inanimate objects
• Focus


  Our attention is drawn towards
• Shift


  A change in ideas/perspectives
• Zoom 


  Focusing in on one thing
• Twist 


  An unexpected event in the story