structural techniques

• what is structure ?

  how a text is structured or put together
• what is form ?


  the type of text it is e.g sonnet, novella etc
• what is zooming in ?


  when a writer focuses on something in close detail
• what is zooming out ?

  when a writer observes something from a distance
• what is the beginning Vs middle ?


  comparing how a story or extract begins to its ending can help illustrate how things have changed
• what is change ?

  how things change and develop over the course of a story or extract is keyto understanding how it works structurally
• what is a cliffhanger ?


  when a story or extract ends abruptly, leaving the reader in suspense wanting to know what will happen next
• what is stichomythia ?


  when people are talking over eachother and speech is cut of
• what is a flashback/forward ?


  when a story jumps backwardsxforwards in time from the current point in the narrative
• what is chronological order ?


  when something follows the order of events in which they occured
• what is anaphora ?


  a word or phrase that is repeated atthe beginning of a successive clause
• what is epistrophe ?


  a word or phrase is repeated at the end of a successive clause