Plot Elements

What is a literary plot?

• A piece of land where you plant stuff.
• A classroom where readers are grown
• The structure or organization of events that create a fictional text
• When one person is out to get another person

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The plot element where the author ties up all of the loose ends

• Climax
• Expostion
• Falling Action
• Resolution

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Which plot element does the author introduce the characters?

• Exposition
• Climax
• Resolution
• Conflict

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What happens during the rising action?

• Character tries to resolve the problem, but fails
• Character begins their journey upward
• The conflict takes place
• The resolution

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

When the character does not change throughout the text, which word best describe that character?

• Dynamic
• Flat
• Round
• Static

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Actions or events that happen after the turning point in the text

• Climax
• Falling Action
• Resolution
• Rising Action

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is a plot?

• a guess about what will happen next in a story
• the series of events or action in a story
• the final outcome of a story
• the high point of a story

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

The story's time and place is its ___.

• tone
• plot
• setting
• voice

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CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

The main character in a story is the ___.

• antagonist
• protagonist
• exposition
• climax

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CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Which part of the plot is
the most intense? This is usually a turning point for the main character.

• falling action
• exposition
• exposition
• climax

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CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5