Structural Features

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Exposition
When a character, event or setting is introduced to the reader/audience.
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Cyclical structure
Returning to a word, idea or location that you mentioned at the beginning at the end.
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Juxtaposition
Placing ideas next to each other to show contrast.
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Dialogue
Speech in a text which gives voice to characters.
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Analepsis
A flashback.
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Prolepsis
A flash forward.
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Spacial shift
A change in location.
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Narrative shift
A change in perspective or viewpoint.
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Focal shift
A change in focus or topic.
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Temporal shift
The change in time.
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Climax
The most dramatic part of the plot.
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Resolution
When a problem is solved.
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Chronology
Time order.
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Digression
To move focus away from the main action in order to create suspense.
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Repetition
Look for patterns in repetition.
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Foreshadowing
To hint at things before they happen.
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Punctuation
Look for how and why punctuation is used. Look for caesuras in poems.
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Tense changes
Changes in tense.
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Card 2

Front

Returning to a word, idea or location that you mentioned at the beginning at the end.

Back

Cyclical structure

Card 3

Front

Placing ideas next to each other to show contrast.

Back

Preview of the back of card 3

Card 4

Front

Speech in a text which gives voice to characters.

Back

Preview of the back of card 4

Card 5

Front

A flashback.

Back

Preview of the back of card 5
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