Story Plot Elements

What is Rising Action?

• Peak Action

• Conflicts & Complications that develop the story

• Background Information

• The Result or Conclusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is Falling Action?

• The Action that Caused you to Fall

• Conflicts & Complications

• The Events after the Climax (lead to the Resolution)

• Resolution or Conclusion

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is Included in the Exposition?

• Characters, Resolution, & Conflict

• The Theme

• Climax & Conflict

• Characters, Setting, and the Introduction of the Problem or Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is the Climax?

• The Turning Point in the Story

• The Tricking Point

• The top of the mountain

• The Twisting Point

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is Resolution?

• The final action

• When the conflict begins

• A War

• The End Result or the Lesson Learned

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is Plot?

• A struggle or problem

• Time and Place

• Sequence of Events that make up a story

• People, Animals, or Creatures

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

Define a Character

• When a person does something in a ctory

• Nice, Smart, or Rude

• Personality Traits

• People, Animals, or Creatures

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is Conflict?

• Turning Point

• Struggle, Problem, or the obstacle in the story

• The Author's Main Idea

• Battle, War, or Party

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

What is Setting?

• The Problem in the story

• The Time when the main problem happens

• the ending of the Story

• The Time and Place of the Story

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the theme?

• What the main character says and does

• The Main Message or Central Idea about life: The Lesson

• The main characters

• The POV: Point of View

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.2

CCSS.RL.5.9

CCSS.RL.6.2

CCSS.RL.7.2

CCSS.RL.8.2