Character & Plot

What is the definition of character?

• a person, animal or other creature in a story.

• the narrator of a story

• the people who has a problem in the story

• the main idea of a story.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.4A

What is the definition of the main character?

• the character that the writer focuses on the most

• The character who goes through some type of change

• the character that does not undergo significant change during the narrative

• the character that the author describes in detail and whose personalities are described or shown to the reader

What is the plot?

• the problem in the story that needs to be solved

• The sequence of events in a story

• the action that helps the characters resolve the conflict

• the way a conflict is solved at the end

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

The introduction to a story, including the primary characters' names, setting, mood, and time.

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Even though it is not always happy, but it does complete the story. It can leave the reader with questions, answers, frustration, or satisfaction.

• Resolution

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Exposition

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

The most exciting point of the story, and is a turning point for the plot or goals of the main character.

• Conclusion

• Climax

• Conflict

• Characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5

The primary problem that drives the story, often a main goal for the protagonist to achieve or overcome.

• Climax

• Character

• Conflict

• Conclusion

Goldilocks opened her eyes and screamed with terror at the sight of the three angry bears. She jumped out of bed then jumped out of the window and ran all the way home.

Goldilocks never sneaked into someone else's house ever again.

This is an example of . . .

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Soon after this the three bears returned. Father bear looked down on his bowl. “Someone's been eating my porridge,” he growled. Mother bear looked down on her bowl. “And someone's been eating my porridge too,” she said. And then baby bear cried, “And someone's been eating my porridge and at it's all gone!”

This is an example of . . .

• Rising Action

• Exposition

• Conflict

• Resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

What is the climax?

• the way a conflict is solved at the end

• a problem in a story that needs to be solved.

• the action that helps the characters resolve the conflict

• the way a conflict is solved at the end

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.5