Elements of Plot 1

Which of the following is the most typical order of a plot?

• 1. Exposition
  2. Rising actions
   3. Falling actions
   4.Climax  
  5.Resolustion
• 1. Exposition 
  2. Rising actions
   3. Climax
   4.Falling Actions 
  5.Resolustion
• 1. Exposition 
  2. Rising actions
   3. Climax
   4.Resolustion 
  5.Falling Actions
• 1. Rising actions
  2. Exposition 
   3. Falling actions
   4.Climax  
  5.Resolustion

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Which four words best describe the word “plot?” 

• characters, setting, and conflict,
• organized sequence of events
• problem of a story 
• Exposition, climax, resolution, denouement

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is the definition of plot?

• The lesson in the story
• The sequence of events in the story
• The turning point of the story
• The conflict in the story

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

The definition of story character:

• Where the story takes place

• A person in a story

• an action that causes something to happen.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

Climax/Turning Point

• The point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest/most intense point, where the story's conflict is addressed, and set the resolution in motion.

• A struggle between opposing forces. At least two characters need to have some problem with each other.

• Conversation between characters. You show who is talking by using quotation marks and a speech tag.

• The narrator knows the thoughts and feelings of all of the characters in the story. This is called third person point of view.

Dialogue

• Characters' speech

• A struggle between opposing forces

• event that introduces the central conflict

• point of view

Tags

CCSS.W.5.3B

event

• An action that causes something to happen. These happen in all stages of a story.

• Background information presented in a literary work.

• the events that make it hard for characters to solve their problem

• The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.

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CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.11-12.5

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Exposition

• The lesson or message of a literary work.

• Sequence of events in a story that are explosions

• Background information, when a writer will expose the setting & character.

• The point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest/most intense point, where the story conflict is addressed, and set the resolution in motion.

Tags

CCSS.W.5.3A

first person point of view

• Told from the viewpoint of one of the characters using the pronouns "I" and We"

• The telling of a story or an account of an event or series of events.

• The context in time and place in which the action of a story occurs.

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CCSS.RL.1.6

CCSS.RL.5.6

CCSS.RL.6.6

CCSS.RL.7.6

CCSS.RL.8.6

inciting incident

• event that introduces the central conflict

• point of view

• sequence of events in a story

• The lesson or message of a literary work.

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CCSS.RL.5.5