Plot Vocab Terms

The chain of events that makes up a story

• Plot
• Characters
• Climax
• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Who is involved in the story such as people, animals, objects, places, ideas.

• Plot
• Climax
• Falling Action
• Characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

When the main character faces a final challenge or conflict. The character or situation changes in some way. The main problem reaches it's peak

• Resolution
• Climax
• Characters
• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

End of the story, the conflicts are resolved or ended, loose ends wrapped up, questions are answered.

• Climax
• Resolution
• Falling Action
• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

A struggle or problems that characters face. Happen in rising action, climax and falling action.

• Exposition
• Falling Action
• Conflict
• Characters

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Events that take place after the climax and prepare the story for its resolution

• Setting
• Exposition
• Falling Action
• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Introduces the main characters, the setting, and the events that make the rest of the story possible

• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Plot
• Characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The most important complications and events in the story that move the plot along

• Plot
• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Time and place of the story

• Setting
• Characters
• Plot
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3