Plot Vocabulary

introduces the characters, setting, and conflict

• example

• conflict

• exposition

• setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

show how the conflict gets more complicated

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

the moment of greatest interest

• conflict

• climax

• rising action

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

Events after the climax, leading to the resolution

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

reveals the outcome of the story

• conflict

• protagonist

• antagonist

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

the series of event in a story

• plot

• rising action

• setting

• story

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

a struggle between opposing forces; drives the narrative forward

• protagonist

• antagonist

• resolution

• conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

place where the story happens and the time when it happens

• characters

• setting

• conflict

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

a struggle between a character and an outside force

• internal conflict

• climax

• characters

• external conflict

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

a struggle within a character's mind

• external conflict

• climax

• internal conflict

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C