Beginning - How the extract opens, Middle - How the extract develops or changes., Ending - How the extract comes to a close, Flashbacks - A scene set in an earlier point in time to the main story, Foreshadowing - A warning or indication of future events, 1st person point of view - A story narrated by the main character (eg: using 'I saw...'), 3rd person point of view - A story narrated by an outsider looking in (eg: using 'he' 'she' or 'they'), Chronological order - Events are told in the order they happened, Non-chronological order - Events are not told in time order, Repetition - Ideas or themes are repeated, Short sentences - Quickens the pace of the story: adds drama / impact. , Long sentences - Slows the pace of the story: adds detail / description, Juxtaposition - Two things placed together to highlight the contrast between them, Zooming in and out - The narrowing or widening of the narrative focus, Focus shift - The change of focus in or between paragraphs, Simple sentence - Contains one clause with a subject and verb, Compound sentence - Contains two independent clauses that are related and joined with a conjunction, Complex sentence - Contains one or more subordinate clause,

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