Elements of Plot

A narrative is a _______.

• story

• plot

• question

Any person appearing in a story is a ______.

• antagonist

• protagonist

• character

Who is the main character in a story?

• protagonist

• antagonist

The series of actions and events that take place in a story.

• story

• narrative

• plot

The time and the place in which a story occurs.

• character

• setting

• exposition

A struggle between opposing characters and/or forces.

• battle

• conflict

A long narrative in a poem or story, about a hero who symbolizes the values of a cultural group.

• argument

• Epic

• resolution

The central character in an epic.

• protagonist

• antagonist

• hero

An epic hero; the main character of the Anglo-Saxon epic Beowulf.

• Beowulf

• Macbeth

• Grendel

There are 5 parts to the plot diagram: what comes first?

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution