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  • the environment in which the extract is set
    setting
  • ideas of themes are repeated
    repetition
  • non-chronological order
    events are not told in time order
  • the people, animals or creatures in the extract
    characters
  • quickens the pace of the story
    short sentences
  • events are told in time order
    chronological order
  • time shift
    how the extract develops or changes
  • visually descriptive or figurative language; the images in the reader's mind
    imagery
  • long sentences
    slows the pace of the story
  • how the extract opens
    beginning/introduction
  • a hint that something is going to happen in the future
    foreshadowing
  • how the extract ends
    ending