Structure & Form
English Lit: AQA GCSE Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde, topic 6.1.2
Structure and Form
Here are four different techniques explained:
Connotations
- An idea or feeling which a word invokes for a person.
Narrative
- A story or written account of events.
First-person narrative
- Uses 'I' and 'we'.
- Told from the internal perspective of a character.
Third-person narrative
- Uses 'he', 'she', and 'they'.
- Told from the external perspective of a character.
Structure and Form
Chronological order
- The order in which the events actually happened.
Non-linear narrative
- The writer uses flashbacks and flash-forwards for effect.
Embedded narrative
- A story within the main narrative.
Narrator
- Someone who tells the story.
Unreliable narrator
- Someone telling a story. But the reader can't trust their version of events.
Test yourself on Structure & Form
From which person's perspective is Jekyll and Hyde written from?
“It was times like these when I thought my father, who hated guns and had never been to any wars, was the bravest man who ever lived”
From which person's perspective is this extract from To Kill A Mockingbird from?Which of these are true of Jekyll and Hyde?
“The other snarled aloud into a savage laugh"
What does the word "snarled" have connotations of?Key Events - Jekyll and Hyde