Structural Devices

Which of the following is written in first person narrator?

• I went to the beach.

• You are going to the beach.

• She went to the beach.

Is this a simple, compound or complex sentence?

Although she had nowhere to go, Milly dragged herself onto the bus morosely.

• simple

• compound

• complex

Which of the following indicates a change in paragraph?

• Time

• Punctuation

• Place

• Long pause

The other two times I should change paragraph are...

What is foreshadowing?

• A false clue which has the reader believing one thing when another is true.

• When events in the future are hinted at.

• When two different ideas are put together for effect.

• When an episode from earlier in the story or before the story is recounted.

What is juxtaposition?

• A false clue which has the reader believing one thing when another is true.

• When events in the future are hinted at.

• When two different ideas are put together for effect.

• When an episode from earlier in the story or before the story is recounted.

What is a red herring?

• A false clue which has the reader believing one thing when another is true.

• When events in the future are hinted at.

• When two different ideas are put together for effect.

• When an episode from earlier in the story or before the story is recounted.

What is a flashback?

• A false clue which has the reader believing one thing when another is true.

• When events in the future are hinted at.

• When two different ideas are put together for effect.

• When an episode from earlier in the story or before the story is recounted.

What is meant by the term 'in medias res'?

What is the inciting incident in a story?

• Where you are introduced to the characters and setting

• Where a problem is introduced and something happens.

• The rising tension of a story

• The section where everything comes together.

• The ending