Plot Elements Review

PLOT Elements

Part 1 - Exposition

This is the beginning of the story.
It is where we learn about the characters, setting, and the main problems.

Multiple Select

We learn about the _______ in the exposition (beginning) of a story.

• characters

• setting

• conflict or problem

• solution

Multiple Choice

What is setting? 

• The time and location in which a story takes place
• A series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict.
• a struggle between two people or things in a short story.
• What you turn on the washer

Part 2 - Rising action

The rising action is the majority of the story.
- Characters begin working to overcome the conflict.
- Characters develop and grow.
- Side Stories and Smaller Conflicts.

Multiple Choice

The Rising action is?

• series of events working to solve the conflict that builds towards the climax

• beginning of the story with character and setting

• turning point of the story or most intense moment

• conflicts are solved and story comes to an end

Part 3 - Climax

- The climax can be debated.
- You could look at it a few ways...
- The climax is the most 'exciting' point.
- The climax is the 'turning' point.
- The climax is when the conflict begins to be resolved.

Multiple Choice

The Climax of the story is?

• series of events working to solve the conflict that builds towards the climax

• beginning of the story with character and setting

• turning point of the story or most intense moment

• conflicts are solved and story comes to an end

Part 4 - Falling Action

• Complete the Story

• Loose Ends are Tied

• Side Stories are Concluded

Multiple Choice

The Falling Action of the story is?

• series of events working to solve the conflict that builds towards the climax

• beginning of the story with character and setting

• turning point of the story or most intense moment

• loose ends are tied and the story begins to wrap-up

Part 5 - Resolution

• aka "Denouement"

• Conclusion of Conflict

• A New Normal or a Return to Normal

Multiple Choice

Resolution...

• the main conflict.

• all the background information about characters, setting, situation, etc.

• the events from the climax to the resolution.

• how the conflict is solved; the way things are at the end.

The beginning of the story introduces the setting, main characters, and starts to introduce the conflict.

​​Exposition

As the conflict becomes more involved in the story, more actions from characters occur, building up.

​​Rising Action

Eventually the characters have to face the conflict. In the climax, they decide how they will solve their problem.

​​Climax

Falling action is the part of the story where we see what happens after the problem solves.
The resolution wraps up any other points in the story.

​​Falling Action/Resolution

Hints or clues about what will happen later in a story

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• creates suspense​

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Foreshadowing

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The plot is interrupted to recreate an event of an earlier time

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• explains how past affects the present​

• gives more info about characters​

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Flashback

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Multiple Choice

Often times provides background information 

• Foreshadowing
• Flashback
• theme
• resolution

Multiple Choice

A look back to an earlier event...

• Flashback
• Foreshadowing

Multiple Choice

Define foreshadowing.

• A flashback of what happened previously

• A hint at something that will happen later

• Giving human-like characteristics to non-living things

• Comparing two unlike things using like or as

Draw

Draw the inciting incident from Call of the Wild.

Draw

Who can draw the best farm animal wearing a fancy hat?