Terminology 9th grade 22-23

introduces the setting, characters and the main characters ordinary life. 

• Rising Action
• Exposition
• Compare
• beginning

The first event that sets the plot in motion and introduces the conflict in the text.

• Inciting Incident

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Plot

the part in the story where the loose ends are tied up and the issues are resolved.

• falling action
• resolution
• rising action
• the end

all the steps/adventures that the main character(protagonist) faces on their journey to the story's climax

• falling action
• action
• rising action
• exposition

the point where the protagonist faces the conflict

• exposition
• falling action
• climax
• conflict

All the issues have been resolved and the main character starts their new life.

• exposition
• resolve
• resolution
• falling action

The sequence of events in a work of literature.

• Plot

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Plight

the struggle between opposing forces

• composition
• conflict
• coronary
• problem

the struggle is inside the character. Ex. making a difficult decision

• internal conflict
• external conflict
• the conflict
• intrinsic

the struggle takes place outside the body and mind.

• external conflict
• internal conflict
• conflict
• problem