Plot Diagram

Where and when a story takes place.

• climax

• setting

• characters

All of the information the reader need to know

before the story begins. Who are the characters?

What is the problem? What is the setting?

• characters

• plot

• exposition

All of the events in the story leading up to the

climax. The tension in the story is building.

• falling action

• rising action

• exposition

The turning point in the story. The tension is

at its highest point in the story.

• conflict

• climax

• falling action

All of the events after the climax. The tension

of the story comes down.

• conflict

• falling action

• rising action

How is the problem/conflict in the story

solved?

• resolution

• exposition

• conflict

The problem in the story.

• conflict

• climax

• exposition

People or animals that are in the story.

• setting

• characters

• resolution

What is number 1 on the plot diagram?

• resolution

• falling action

• exposition

What is number 3 on the plot diagram?

• conflict

• falling action

• rising action