Study Guide: Elements of Plot

What is the Time and Place of the Story?

• Rising Action
• Plot
• Conflict
• Setting

The exposition...

• Introduces the reader to the characters and setting
• Is the part of the story where a character changes
• Is the part of the story when the conflict is resolved
• Is the part of the story where the events help the reader understand what the conflict is

The rising action of the plot...

• is the series of events that help the reader understand the conflict.
• show a change in the main character.
• show how the problem is resolved.
• is the theme.

Which part of the story is represented by this blue blob?

• exposition
• rising action
• climax
• resolution

Which part of the story is represented by this blue blob?

• exposition
• rising action
• falling action
• resolution

Which part of the story is represented by this blue blob?

• climax
• rising action
• falling action
• resolution

Which part of the story is represented by this blue blob?

• climax
• exposition
• falling action
• resolution

The end of the story is called the ______.

• falling action
• rising action
• resolution
• climax

Turning point in a story; moment of greatest suspense; conflict at most intense or dramatic moment.

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Resolution

• Climax

Which list shows the plot elements in the correct order?

• Exposition, Falling Action, Climax, Rising Action, Resolution

• Exposition, Falling Action, Rising Action, Climax, Resolution

• Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution

• Rising Action, Falling Action, Exposition, Climax, Resolution