Plot Elements and Story Vocabulary

The chain of events that make up a story

• setting

• complications

• plot

• antagonist

The main character of a story

• antagonist

• protagonist

• setting

• complications

The time and place of a story

• setting

• plot

• complications

• protagonist

Problems that arise as characters struggle to reach their goal

• antagonist

• protagonist

• complications

• plot

The conflict or force in conflict with the protagonist

• setting

• plot

• complications

• antagonist

The first part of the plot

• climax

• resolution

• rising action

• exposition

Main part of the story

• rising action

• falling action

• climax

• exposition

The most exciting or intense part of the story for the protagonist

• resolution

• plot

• climax

• rising action

Events that follow the climax and lead to the resolution

• resolution

• falling action

• climax

• exposition

The end of the story

• exposition

• climax

• falling action

• resolution