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?
This is used by writers to develop and reveal characters' personalities and appearances.
What is characterization?
Decipher.
What is interpreting, understanding, or figuring something out?
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 purpose of this genre is to relate important facts and ideas to readers who are unfamiliar with a historical subject.
What is a historical essay?
In this type of characterization, writers simply tell us what a character is like.
What is direct characterization?
Invincible.
What is impossible to defeat?
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)?
These are the two types of characters, describing how dimensional they are.
What are round and flat characters?
Triumph.
What is victory or success?
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 historical details.
What is historical fiction?
In this type of characterization, writers show a character's traits instead of telling us.
What is indirect characterization?
Seminal.
What is being the first of something that is later recognized as important?
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 inform general readers of new developments in science and technology.
What is a technology feature?
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?
Using this type of plot is how authors create interest and accentuate the dramatic aspects of their story.
What is nonlinear plot?