English Language GCSE
Cyclical Structure
What Cyclical Structure means in English Language GCSE, as defined for OCR, Pearson Edexcel.
Definitions of Cyclical Structure
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A narrative structure where the text ends in the same place, or addressing the same idea, as it began.
When a text ends by returning to the same setting, idea, or phrasing used in the opening.
A text that ends in the same place or with the same idea as it began.
A narrative that ends in the same place or way it began.
Topics that use Cyclical Structure
- Exploring effects and impact (02) (OCR GCSE)
- Reading meaning and effects (OCR GCSE)
- Writing imaginatively and creatively (OCR GCSE)
- Reading: Fiction and Imaginative Writing (Pearson Edexcel GCSE)
Related terms
- Register
- Connotation
- Discourse Marker
- Juxtaposition
- Omniscient Narrator
- Semantic Field
- Discourse Markers
- Implicit Information
Using Cyclical Structure in the exam
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