terminology- structural features

analepsis

a past event being narrated breaking the chronological storyline. reference to something earlier in the text.

‘after my break…’

analogy

a comparison of one thing to another to explain something

anecdote

a short amusing story about a real incident/event

antithetical imagery/ semantic fields

a lexical set of semantically related items. these fields can contrast each other.

‘red rice’ ‘delicious meals’ ‘gravy’ ‘lettuce salad’

cyclical argument

the writer begins where they mean to end. the text ends on the same topic it begins with

direct speech

the transcription of speech written exactly how it was said

‘we go to liberate, not to conquer’

free indirect discourse

a style of 3rd person narration where someone’s actual words ‘infect’ or appear in the narrative without any acknowledgement

fronted adverbial

when the adverbial word or phrase move to the front of the sentence before the verb.

‘incidentally’

fronted conjunctions

starting a sentence with a conjunction

‘and…’

prolepsis

reference to something about to happen. foreshadowing.

e.g kate’s dream

recapitulation

restating the main points of an idea

‘let’s bring everyone home and leave iraq a better place.’

tangent

a completely different line of thought

‘what do you mean?’ ‘they don’t care’- bashir and diana

tonal shifts

tone changes during an extract