Plot

Vocabulary for Novel Discussions

Multiple Choice

What do we call the way events are structured to create a story?

• plot

• drama

• storylines

• resolution

Multiple Choice

What's the order?

• rising action, exposition, falling action, climax, resolution

• exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution

• resolution, exposition, climax, rising action, falling action

Fill in the Blanks

What is the word that describes the peak of the plot pyramid?

(please ignore the fairy tale part)

This is why teachers point out imagery and figurative language: we want you to see it and use it too!

Multiple Choice

Which part of the plot diagram fits the description?

Jack and his family have no money.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

Which part of the plot diagram fits the description?

Jack and his mother are rich.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

Which part of the plot diagram fits the description?

Jack buys beans, climbs the beanstalk, meets a giant, and flees from the giant.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

Which part of the plot diagram fits the description?

Jack chops down the beanstalk.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

Which part of the plot diagram fits the description?

The giant dies.

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

Multiple Choice

Which part of the plot diagram fits the description?

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

Conflict:

• Can be internal or external.

• Is often given subcategories to say what the struggle specifically is.

• Example: "man" (woman) vs. nature/self/society...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6IHUuZ8Evag

Poll

Which major conflict have you seen in your novel so far?

• character vs. character

• character vs. self

• character vs. nature

• character vs. society

• other