Plot Structure

Story Elements

Best way to understand a story is to analyze its structure.

Story Elements

• Best way to understand a story is to analyze its structure (PLOT).

• Stories have 5 parts:

• Characters

• Setting

• Plot

• Conflict

• Resolution

So what is PLOT?

• Sequence of events in a story

• BEGINNING: Introduces character & setting

• MIDDLE: Tells how characters react to the problem

• ENDING: Tells how the problem is solved

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Multiple Choice

Plot is the __________.

• moral or lesson learned

• characters in the story

• beginning, middle, and the end of a story

• setting

Multiple Choice

What is the main idea?

• What the text is mostly about 
• Facts that support the main idea 
• Description of the cause and effect 
• Key ideas that support the general idea 

Multiple Choice

Which part of the story is represented by this blue blob?

• exposition
• rising action
• climax
• resolution

Multiple Choice

Which part of the story is represented by this blue blob?

• exposition
• rising action
• falling action
• resolution

Multiple Choice

Which part of the story is represented by this blue blob?

• climax
• rising action
• falling action
• resolution

Multiple Choice

Which part of the story is represented by this blue blob?

• climax
• exposition
• falling action
• resolution

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict of a story?

• the problem faced by the main character
• a bad hair day
• the ending of the story
• a boxing match

Multiple Choice

What is the definition of plot?

• The lesson in the story
• The sequence of events in the story
• The turning point of the story
• The conflict in the story

Multiple Choice

The story's time and place is called the....

• tone
• plot
• setting
• voice

Multiple Choice

When do you usually meet main characters?

• In the end

• During the conflict

• In the solution

• In the introduction

Multiple Choice

Choose the two words that best complete the sentence.
During the exposition, it is important to introduce the ________ and the ________.

• characters, setting 
• characters, falling action 
• climax, conflict 
• conflict, resolution

Multiple Choice

The events in the plot usually build up to an important event called a CLIMAX. What is a CLIMAX?

• the time and place the story happens

• the most exciting point in the story

• the people or animals in the story

• the lesson or moral taught in the story

Multiple Choice

Characters can face several problems in one story. The main problem is called the:

• solution

• conclusion

• climax

• conflict

Multiple Choice

What is another word for conclusion?

• End

• Beginning

• Middle

• Title