This PowerPoint explains the meaning of form, structure and language and identifies devices that show form, structure and Language. It is a basic framework for any text.

1. Section A(a) Questions
 Write about the ways ….tells the story in
chapter …/a poem.
 Only focus on how the story is told
through form/structure/language.

2. What is Form?
In a novel-elements that show the
text fits into a particular genre.
e.g. What shows the Kite Runner
as a bildungsroman novel?
What other genres does the Kite
Runner fit into?

3. What is Structure?
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Foreshadowing
Analepsis
Symbols that are repeated.
Mirroring.
Language/phrases that are
Anything that links
repeated.
different chapters
together or different • Signs that a character has
developed.
parts of the story.

4. What is Language?
Imagery and figurative languagesimiles/metaphors/personification.
The Lexis used and connotations of the
lexis.
Semantic Fields.
Use of declaratives/imperatives.

5. Narrative Structure
Circular/Linear/Episodic.
Foreshadowing
Analepsis
Retrospective

6. Point of View
Type of
Narrator.
Omniscient
Narrator
Bias
Unreliable
Narrator
Does
the
point of
view
ever
switch?
Narrative
Voice.

7.  How is the story told
Form
Structure
Language
through these devices?
 What are the effects on the
story through
form/structure/language.
Link to Aspects of Narrative:
1. Characterisation
2. Settings
3. Time
4. Voices