Plot Structure

A conflict is introduced and suspense built

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Conflict

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

A narrative device, often used at the beginning of a work that provides necessary background information about the characters and their circumstances.

• Conflict

• Setting

• Exposition

• Inciting Incident

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

the third part of the plot; a time at which a decisive change in a situation occurs, especially one with beneficial results or the most intense, exciting, or important point of something

• Resolution

• Antagonist

• Story Elements

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

Events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Main Character

• Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

A struggle between opposing forces

• Conflict

• Point of View

• Main Character

• Protagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the most important character in a story, poem, or play

• Setting

• Main Character

• Climax

• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

event that introduces the central conflict

• Inciting Incident

• Setting

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

Where the story takes place

• Setting

• Place

• Conflict

• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

The main character

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• First Person

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9

A character or force in conflict with the main character

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.9