Narrative is not in chronological order.
Narrator looks back on events.
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Dystopia
An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice.
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Idealism
The unrealistic belief in or pursuit of perfection.
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Realism
The attitude or practice of accepting a situation as it is and being prepared to deal with it accordingly.
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Regime
An authoritative government with an ordered way of doing things.
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Prolepsis
Looking forward at events yet to occur chronologically.
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Salvaging
A deterrent to stop others acting outside of rules.
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Totalitarian
A form of government that permits no individual freedom and that seeks to control all aspects of individual life to the authority of the state. Examples of totalitarian states include the Soviet Union under Joseph Stalin, Nazi Germany under Adolf Hitler a
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Utopia
An imagined place or state of things in which everything is perfect.
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Modal auxiliary verbs
e.g Must, Will, Might (it’s is an auxiliary verb that joins a main verb to show the degree of commitment towards an event or person a speaker holds)
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Modal Lexical Verbs
e.g. like, hope, believe
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Modal Adjectives
e.g. sure, certain, doubtful
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Modal Adverbs
e.g. perhaps, possibly, maybe
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Modal tags
e.g. I guess
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Deontic modality
Expressions that highlight a sense of obligation or necessity
• You must come back (modal auxiliary verb)
• It is necessary for you to come back (modal adjective)
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Boulomaic modality
Expressions that highlight aspects of desire
• I hope you will come back (modal lexical verb)
• Hopefully, you will come back (modal adverb)
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Epistemic modality
Expressions that highlight degrees of belief, certainty or perception
• You might come back (modal auxiliary verb)
• I think you’ll come back (modal lexical verb)
• You’ll come back, I guess (Modal tag)
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Exophoric
Storytelling that occurs when the narrative is told in a different location to where the narrated events took place.
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Endophoric
Storytelling which takes place in the same location as the narrated events.
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Types of graphological features
• Layout, shape and space
• Icons and symbols
• Typography
• Multimodal texts
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Layout
The physical organisation of a text.
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Iconic Sign
A sign or image that is a direct picture of the thing it represents.
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Symbolic Sign
A sign or image where an associated meaning is drawn from some shared degree of knowledge.
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Typographical Feature
A feature related to the use of fonts in texts.
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Multimodal Text
A text that relies on the interplay of different codes (e.g. the visual and the written) to help shape meaning.
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Base text
The original text from which the act of re-creative writing takes place
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Re-creative writing
The deliberate act of transforming a text so as to present it from a different perspective and/or in a different genre.
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Narrative discourse
The shaping of the story through choices in language and structure.
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Double-journey
A narrative that relays both the events of a physical journey and a psychological one that the narrator has undertaken.
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Transitive Verbs
Object follows it
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Intransitive Verbs
Does not have an object to follow it
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Front
Dystopia
Back
An imagined state or society in which there is great suffering or injustice.
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