Plot Elements

Plot Elements

Poll

How confident do you feel about plot elements right now?

• I can teach someone else

• I could use more help with it

• I understand by couldn't teach it

• I don't remember anything

​A series of events that makes up a story.

An order that makes a story make sense.

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What is a plot?

Multiple Choice

What is the series of events that makes up a story?

• Themes

• Plot

• Characters

• Settings

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We use plot to make stories make...

Exposition

Background Information

This occurs at the beginning of a story. Things introduced here include:

1. characters

2. setting

3. themes

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Multiple Choice

Which of the following is not included in the Exposition?

• New characters

• Themes

• The Resolution

• Settings

Rising Action

This is all of the events leading up to the main conflict.

Example: Avengers Infinity War

All the actions the heroes take to get the infinity stones are rising actions.

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Multiple Choice

What part of Avengers is rising action?

• When Thanos is introduced

• When a new character is introduced

• When they fight Thanos

• When they are gathering the infinity stones

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" Conflict is competitive or opposing action of incompatible people or things; antagonistic state or action" 

Multiple Choice

Which of the following would be a conflict?

• friends talking to each other

• a person reading quietly

• people play fighting

• a fight happening in the hallways

Climax

The main conflict is addressed,

The main character must now face what the story has built up to

Subject | Subject

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Open Ended

What is a climax in a story?

Falling Action

Events after the main conflict.

This is where a story starts to wind down.

Poll

When in a story does falling action occur?

• After the climax

• At the very end

• At the beginning

• In the middle

Resolution

The end of a story

This is the very end of the story, where loose ends are tied up, questions are answered, and the reader/watcher feels closure.

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Multiple Choice

The name for the end of a plot is called...

• A conclusion

• A theme

• Tying things up

• A resolution