Authors' Techniques

When the author shows you a scene that takes place either before or after the current action, to give you more info

• flashback/flashforward

• multiple plot lines

• inner thinking

• dialogue

When the text actually has more than one story in it.

• flashback/flashforward

• multiple plot lines

• inner thinking

• dialogue

When the author presents the thoughts and feelings of a character as they occur

• flashback/flashforward

• multiple plot lines

• inner thinking

• dialogue

A conversation between two or more characters in a text

• flashback/flashforward

• multiple plot lines

• inner thinking

• dialogue

When the author lets you get to know characters by the things they do

• revealing actions

• multiple points of view

• 1st person narrator

• reader knows more than the characters

When the narrator of the story is all-knowing, like a god looking at the world from above, seeing the truth of everything

• revealing actions

• multiple points of view

• 1st person narrator

• reader knows more than the characters

When the person who is narrating/telling the story is the main character in the book, so we get to hear their perspective

• revealing actions

• multiple points of view

• 1st person narrator

• reader knows more than the characters

When the author gives us insight into more than one characters’ perspective about a topic/issue in a text

• revealing actions

• multiple points of view

• 1st person narrator

• reader knows more than the characters

To give an object a meaning that is different and usually larger than its typical meaning or function

• symbolism

• multiple points of view

• tone

• metaphor

When the writer uses multiple senses to help readers imagine what it is like to be in the story.

• symbolism

• tone

• description

• metaphor