"The Hitchhiker" Plot Diagram Review

Front

Choose the correct question/questions that goes along with the exposition. Options: Who are the characters? What is the setting? What incident sets the story in motion?, What are the main events in the story? What complications make it difficult for characters to reach their goals?, What is the most exciting or intense moment of the story?, What loose ends of the story are tied up?, How does the story end?

Back

Who are the characters? What is the setting? What incident sets the story in motion?

Front

What question goes along with the rising action?

Back

What are the main events in the story? What complications make it difficult for characters to reach their goals?

Front

What question goes along with the climax?

Back

What is the most exciting or intense moment of the story?

Front

What question goes along with the falling action?

Back

What loose ends of the story are tied up?

Front

Choose the correct question/questions that goes along with the resolution. Options: Who are the characters? What is the setting? What incident sets the story in motion? What are the main events in the story? What complications make it difficult for characters to reach their goals? What is the most exciting or intense moment of the story? What loose ends of the story are tied up? How does the story end?

Back

How does the story end?

Front

Plot element where Adams stops at a gas station and is told there are never any hitchhikers in the area.

Back

rising action

Front

Plot element where Mrs. Whitney tells Adams he died six days ago in an automobile accident on the Brooklyn Bridge. Options: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

Back

falling action

Front

Plot element where the story takes place on the highway in the early 1940's. Options: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution.

Back

exposition

Front

Plot element where Adams sits in the auto camp in New Mexico and ponders his death, who the hitchhiker is, and who he is himself.

Back

resolution

Front

Plot element where Adams is told that his mother has had a breakdown grieving the loss of her oldest son.

Back

climax