exposition Characters, setting, and initial conflict are in

exposition

• Characters, setting, and initial conflict are introduced

• a cat

rising action

• all events leading to the climax

• a coffee drink

conflict

• The main problem the character faces

• a car

climax

• The turning point in the story...this is the highest point of interest/tension in the story

• the highest point of a play

falling action

• events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• action where someone falls down

resolution

• End of the story where loose ends are tied up

• New Year's Eve resolutions

denouementt

• the final resolution of the main complication of a literary or dramatic work

• medical procedures

the order in which things happen

• sequence

• prison sentence