Plot Structure Definitions & Meanings

What every story needs:

• Plot, theme, characters, setting, and conflict.

• Exposition, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution.

• Theme, characters, setting, and conflict.

• Setting & Characters.

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

the sequence of events in a literary work.

• plot

• setting

• characters

• sequence

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CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the time and location (place) in which a story takes place.

• plot

• characters

• setting

• sequence

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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 people or animals who are important to the story.

• plot

• setting

• inferences

• characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

the main character in the story (the good guy)

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Chracterization

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the villain of the story (the bad guy)

• Protagonist

• Antagonist

• Chracterization

• Plot

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

the beginning of the story. Where the setting and characters are introduced.

• exposition

• resolution

• rising action

• falling action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

the event that sets the story in motion.

• expostion

• initiating event (incident)

• rising action

• climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

the main part of the story that moves the plot along with complications, twists and turns.

• expostion

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

the most exciting or intense part of the story; turning point.

• expostion

• inciting incident / event

• climax

• resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9