Writer Techniques (Leaving Cert English): Flashcards

Story via letters, diaries, articles, ship's log

Multiple perspectives, realism, immediacy

Builds suspense as readers piece together plot

Adds suspense; reflects characters' confusion

Rising action, climax, resolution

Creates dark, eerie atmosphere

Formal, elaborate, polite, restrained

Life, death, unnatural life prolongation via vampirism

Fight against Dracula's corruption of life

Protection, faith; good vs evil clash

Isolation, entrapment, inescapable doom

Predatory nature, supernatural connection

Animalistic & supernatural; otherness & menace