Text 1 narrates a flood in order, from the first rain to the rescue boat. Text 2 begins with the family safe on a rooftop, then traces how they got there. How does Text 2's structure change the reading experience?

Text 1 covers one unbroken afternoon at a swim tryout. Text 2 covers the same tryout in six dated entries written across two months. What does Text 2's structure let readers see that Text 1 cannot?

Poem 1 uses four-line stanzas with a steady beat and end rhyme. Poem 2 runs as unbroken free verse with lines of uneven length. How does Poem 2's form affect its style?

Text 1 is a letter from a camp counselor to her sister about a lost hiker. Text 2 narrates the same search in third person. What does the letter form add?

Text 1 tells a bike race in one long paragraph. Text 2 tells the same race in five short numbered sections of a few lines each. How does Text 2's division change the reader's experience?

Text 1 tells of a shipwreck directly. In Text 2 an old sailor tells the same wreck to listeners at a harbor inn and the text returns to the inn at the end. What does Text 2's frame do?

Text 1 follows one brother's account of a broken window. Text 2 alternates chapters between both brothers' accounts of the same window. How does Text 2's arrangement affect meaning?

Text 1 moves straight through a student's first day at a new school. Text 2 stops midway to show a memory of the old school, then returns to the first day. What effect does Text 2's interruption create?

Poem 1 lists ten things a grandmother kept in a kitchen drawer. Poem 2 lists nine such things, then turns in its final line to say the drawer is now empty. How does Poem 2's ending change it?

Text 1 is a scene in script form: speeches with bracketed stage directions. Text 2 narrates the same argument in prose, with a narrator describing what each speaker feels. What does the script form leave to the reader?

Poem 1 states the line "the door stays open" once, at its close. Poem 2 repeats that same line at the end of each of its four stanzas. How does the repetition in Poem 2 affect meaning?

Text 1 describes a pier only as it stands today, boarded up. Text 2 alternates a paragraph of the crowded pier in 1962 with a paragraph of the same pier today. What does Text 2's alternation do?

Text 1 runs continuously to the end of a night search. Text 2 breaks the same search into chapters, each of which ends in the middle of an action. How do Text 2's breaks change the reader's experience?

Text 1 opens with a prologue stating that the sled dog never came back. Text 2 opens with that same dog's first morning on the trail. How does Text 1's prologue change the reading?

Text 1 is a journal kept by a lighthouse keeper. Text 2 is an exchange of letters between that keeper and a supply captain. What can Text 2's structure show that Text 1's cannot?

Text 1 ends with a girl leaving her town for good. Text 2 opens and closes with the same image of her standing at the town gate. How does Text 2's circular shape affect meaning?

Text 1 covers a whole winter in two summarizing paragraphs. Text 2 covers one hour of that winter minute by minute, in dialogue and action. How does Text 2's handling of time affect emphasis?

Poem 1 runs as one unbroken block of thirty lines. Poem 2 sets the same thirty lines in fifteen two-line pairs. How does Poem 2's arrangement affect the reading?

Text 1 narrates a bakery owner's early years in third person. Text 2 prints a question-and-answer transcript of an interview with that same owner. What does the transcript structure change?

Text 1 follows a violin's owner from 1930 to today in order. Text 2 alternates chapters between the violin's first owner in 1930 and a student who finds it today. How does Text 2's structure affect meaning?