Senior Narrative/Prose Conventions & Techniques

What is the type of irony called with a contrast between what happens and what was expected (or seems appropriate)?

A mild/less negative word substituted for a harsh or blunt one - used to make something more positive or neutral

What type of language appeals to a reader's emotions, or conveys strong emotion?

This refers to the specific word choice of the author

What refers to the category of writing?

This refers to how a group of people, ideas or concepts are constructed and presented. 

The use of natural elements to reflect the characters emotion, situation or change 

What is it when the author refers to another text; there are four main types (Biblical, Literary, Historical & Popular)?

What is Industry specific language called?

What are the pre-conceived ideas about places, people or institutions?

What is an aspect of characterisation which connects the character to the narrator?

What refers to the way the author has used language to create a particular theme or effect (how it's all organised)?

When looking at how the people, around a text, use and interpret it (influencing how the text is read)...

What tells a story or part of a story?

Language used to appeal to the five senses

What is the person who is telling the story (can change voice without changing perspective) called?

What is culture specific informal language called?

What is it called when the narrator is outside the story and views things more generally (fly on the wall)?

What is the aspect of characterisation that refers to the way a character interacts with other characters?

What is the type of conflict where a character works against ideas, practices or customs of others (a group)?

What is it called when human traits are applied to animals?

What is it called when the author provides clues/hints about what is going to happen later?

What is it called when the narrator is inside the story "I"?

What is it called when the author's experiences, gender, ethnicity etc shape the text?

What is the aspect of characterisation which refers to what a character looks like and wears (facial expressions etc)?

What reflects the time in which the text was created?

What is it called when animal traits are applied to humans?

When the events of the story are told out of order - a high use of flashbacks or flash-forwards, it is called...

What includes Orientation, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action and Resolution?

What is the type of conflict where one character works against another?

What refers to the general construction of characters?

What is the term for Informal language?

What refers to the sound of a passage?

What is the perspective from which a story is told called?

What is it called when Characters are speaking?

How your family, age, gender, ethnicity, experiences etc shape your perspectives, attitudes and values and responses...

What is a question which does not require an answer - used to force a reader to contemplate a situation?

This refers to the opposition of forces which tie one incident to another and make movement within the story

What is similar to sarcasm - what is 'said' is the opposite to the intended meaning?

What refers to the construction of sentences, paragraphs and passages?

What is the figure of speech when a person who is dead or absent (or nonhuman) is addressed as if it were alive/present?

A type of irony with a contrast between what the character thinks to be true and what the reader knows to be true.

What is it called when human traits are applied to objects?

When a word imitates or describes a sound it is called...

What is the type of conflict where a character works against natural forces or the physical environment around him/her?

What is it called when we draw connections between texts?

Language which contains images; it is not meant to be taken in the literal sense. It makes use of comparisons for effect

An object/colour which is used to give meaning to something more abstract like a concept or emotion is called...

What is the type of conflict where one character works against himself?

What is the message of the text - there may be more than one?

Two or more stories which seem unconnected and run alongside each other before joining up to provide a resolution

When the plot follows a chronological order, it is called...

What is where and when a story takes place called?

What is the type of irony where the actual contrast between what is said and what is meant - sarcasm? 

What is a common form of figurative language which states a fact or draws a picture by comparing two things?

What refers to the order in which the story is told?

What aspect of characterisation refers to where we first see a character and the objects he/she is surrounded by?

What aspect of characterisation refers to how a character talks and the sorts of things they say? 

What are the diagrams, maps, pictures (which are added to build information or meaning about a topic/character) called?

When the narrator includes the reader in the story "you" 

What aspect of characterisation refers to what a character does?

What is a recurring symbol in prose?

What refers to how a setting feels?

What is it called when the narrator is outside the story but follows one or two characters closely "He"?

What is it called when the story starts at the end, then jumps back to the beginning and leads up to the end?