Plot Diagram

Why is it important to understand the structure of a short story?

• Because we love stories
• To help us foreshadow and understand what might happen next in the story
• To know how to read
• Because sometimes stories are weird or boring

The conflict is what ______________________.

• makes people sad.
• leads to the falling action.
• sets the story in motion.
• doesn't really matter.

____________________ are the events that lead to the climax.

• The exposition
• The ending
• The beginning parts
• Rising action

The ________________ is the turning point in the story, or the most exciting part of the story.

• climax
• middle
• exposition
• ending

Falling action leads to the ___________ of the story.

• middle
• start
• end or resolution
• There is no falling action

___________________ is the very end of the story where we find out the final outcome of the story.

• Resolution
• hypothesis
• Character traits
• Mr. Ngo