Plot Structure

What is plot?

• the time and place of a story

• the main character

• where we learn the characters, setting, and conflict

• what's happening in the story or the sequence of events in a story

What is setting?

• the time and place of a story

• the end of a story

• the sequence of events in a story

• a feeling of nervous tension or excitement

True or False: The reader learns more and more about the conflict or problem as you rise up the mountain in the Rising Action of a story.

What is the fancy word for the beginning of a story?

• Resolution or Denoument

• Exposition

• Initiating or Inciting Event

• Falling Action

What does the reader learn in the exposition of a story?

• how the story ends

• more and more about the conflict or problem

• characters, setting, and conflict or problem

• how the characters are going to solve the problem

What is suspense?

• the time and place of a story

• the main character

• a feeling of nervous excitement or tension

• the event that sets the whole story in motion

Why is the climax called the turning point of a story?

• the characters are lost

• you can see the farthest

• it has a lot of suspense

• instead of learning about the problem, characters are trying to solve it

What part of plot structure is number 6 on this image?

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Resolution or Denoument

What part of plot structure is number 2 on this image?

• Exposition

• Resolution or Denoument

• Rising Action

• Initiating Event or Inciting Incident

What stage in plot structure is number 5 on this image?

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Initiating Event or Inciting Incident

• Exposition