Plot Elements

An opening section in fiction, including novel, play, and movie, by which background information about the characters, events, or setting is conveyed; also known as the basic situation

• conflicts
• exposition
• flashbacks
• rising action

A part of a book or play in which more things start to happen; leads to the highest point in the story

• conflicts
• exposition
• flashbacks
• rising action

smaller problems that arise when characters work to resolve the main conflicts

• conflicts
• internal conflicts
• complications
• external conflicts

the oppositions of persons or forces that give rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction; can be internal or external

• conflicts
• internal conflicts
• complications
• external conflicts

a struggle occurring within a character's mind of an ethical or emotional nature

• conflicts
• internal conflicts
• complications
• external conflicts

a character is grappling some force outside of him or herself like man vs man, man vs nature, man vs the supernatural

• conflicts
• internal conflicts
• complications
• external conflicts

The turning point in a plot or dramatic action, especially one marking a change in the protagonist's affairs.

• falling action
• resolution
• plot
• climax

The conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist unravels, with the protagonist winning or losing against the antagonist 

• falling action
• resolution
• plot
• climax

The point in a literary work at which the chief dramatic complication is worked out; the final outcome of the story; also known as the denouement

• falling action
• resolution
• plot
• climax

The general course of a story including significant events that determine its course or significant patterns of events.

• falling action
• resolution
• plot
• climax

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