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Week 05 · Structure and Point of View

Friday

Nova's Signal Review
// Who tells it, and where each scene sits
⏱ about 20 min

Friday: Nova's Signal Review

The string lights come on over the Signal Desk, and Nova rises to the middle of the corkboard.

"Signal Review," she says. "This week you read four stories. Two of them were the same morning."

"Three, if you count mine," Rocket says. Raven lifts an eyebrow. "You mean the one where you saved the day?"

"Every word true," Rocket says. "From my window," Raven says.

Nova dims and brightens, which is her way of laughing. "Scenes, narrators and the gap. Show me all three."

"And if I only remember two?" Rocket asks.

"Then look back," Nova says. "That is what the passages are for."

Look back

This week you read The Missing Page, Press Day by Rocket, Press Day by Raven, and The Surprise Issue.

You learned how a scene fits the whole, how a narrator's point of view shapes a story, and how dramatic irony works.

Look back at any passage whenever you need to.

REVIEW 1: STRUCTURE
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
In The Missing Page, which scene sends the search outside?
A scene that answers the main problem is doing which job?
The cutting test asks
Which passage was built in labeled scenes?
REVIEW 2: NARRATORS
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
Press Day, by Rocket is told in
Which detail appears only in Raven's version?
Rocket's voice is boastful because of words like
Reading two narrators on one event gives the reader
REVIEW 3: THE GAP
  • Read the question.
  • Tap your answer.
Dramatic irony means
Which effect did Rocket's promise to figure it out create?
Which effect did The library answer create?
The gap in The Surprise Issue closes when
THE MISSING PAGE, ONE MORE TIME
  • Put the scenes of The Missing Page in order.
  • Tap the cards in order.
1First
2Next
3Then
4Last
FIND DRAMATIC IRONY IN A STORY
  • ?Find the line where the author told you.
  • ?Decide if the gap makes you worry or laugh.
  • ?Ask what you know that the character does not.
  • ?Watch for the moment the character finds out.
WHY THIS EXERCISEThese are the steps from Thursday. They work on any story with a secret.
SentenceTrue or false?
A first-person narrator can report another character's private thoughts.?
A scene can add a clue without solving the problem.?
Two narrators can both tell the truth about one morning.?
Dramatic irony only creates humor, never suspense.?
Nova gave the crew the answer in scene three of The Missing Page.?
WHY THIS EXERCISEFirst person only knows its own mind. Dramatic irony can make us laugh or lean forward. Nova hints only.
Who tells Press Day in the version that begins with counting cards? Type the name.
WHY THIS EXERCISEWhat a narrator notices first is one of the fastest clues to who is talking.
Try it
Pick a scene from any book you are reading. Name its job in one word.
Then say who is telling it and one thing that narrator cannot know.

Scenes, narrators, and the gap: all three held. Tomorrow is Press Day, and your Nova version goes to print.

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