Text Structures and Features
This text structure shows the reader events in the order that they occurred.
What is time order or chronological order?
What is magical realism?
In this type of characterization, writers simply tell us what a character is like.
What is direct characterization?
Triumph.
What is victory or success?
This type of plot presents a sequence of events in the order in which they occur.
What is linear plot?
This text feature is used to outline passages and tell the reader what specific sections of the text will be about.
What are subtitles?
The author includes this to help readers visualize what is happening or experience what the writer is describing.
What is a imagery or sensory details?
In this type of characterization, we can figure out a character's traits based on how he/she thinks, speaks, acts, dresses, etc.
What is indirect characterization?
Revolutionize.
What is to drastically change or improve?
This type of plot breaks traditional time order or chronological order.
What is nonlinear plot?
This text structure identifies similarities and differences between two or more related topics.
What is compare and contrast?
The purpose of this genre is to briefly relate the major facts and achievements of a real person's life.
What is a biographical profile (biography)?
This is the term used to describe a character who is one-dimensional and does not undergo a change in the story.
What is a flat character?
Naiveté.
What is innocence or lack of experience and sophistication?
This nonlinear narrative technique interrupts the present to show scenes from the past.
What is a flashback?
This text structure explains the reasons why an event happened and what happened as a result.
What is cause and effect?
The purpose of this genre is to present an imagined story set in the past that contains real details from history.
What is historical fiction?
This is the term used to describe a character who is complex and well-developed in a story.
What is a round character?
Deficiency.
What is a lack of something?
This nonlinear narrative technique consists of clues that set up readers' expectations and hint at events to come.
What is foreshadowing.
This text feature helps to clarify information, and often shows parts of a whole or some type of process.
What are diagrams?
The purpose of this genre is to tell a story that explains the world and our role in it.
What is a myth?
In this type of characterization, the reader makes inferences and draws conclusions about the character based on those clues.
What is indirect characterization?
Prescient.
What is having knowledge of things before they happen?
Authors use this dramatic nonlinear plot technique to create interest by dropping the audience in the middle of the plot.
What is in medias res?