Short, simple sentences - Between 1 to 5 words in a sentence. Helps to create intensity and speed within the text, Longer, complex sentences - Long sentences often contain lots of detail and description and are used to give the impression of time dragging, Cyclical Structure - The story starts with one topic and ends with the same topic that it started with., Hook - Pulls in the reader's interest. Often found at the start of the extract, Dialogue - A conversation between two characters. It gives us an insight into the characters thoughts and feelings, Zooming in - Focuses on one character/scene up close. Full detail on one thing, Zooming out - Focuses on a wider view. Provides a lot of detail for a wide view, Foreshadowing - Hints at what is to come in the story. What could be happening?, Flashback - Flashbacks focus on the past. They provide insight into a character's background/history, Focus shift / Shift in focus - Moving between characters or scenes. Shifting from a character to another or from one object to another., Narrative viewpoint - The perspective that a text is written from, e.g. first-person point of view, Chronological progression - Presented in time order, from earliest to latest, Non-linear structure - A type of narrative structure that tells the events in a non-chronological order, Pace - The speed at which the writer takes the reader though the events in a story, Recurring motifs - Repetition of images to reinforce key ideas, Juxtaposition - Contrasting ideas placed near each other, Caesuras - A structural pause within a sentence, often created by punctuation like commas, full stops, dashes, or semi-colons.,

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