Plot, suspense and characterisation

The main events, actions, and storyline of a narrative work.

• setting

• characters

• plot

• narrative

• story

The stage of a plot that provides background information about the main

characters, the setting, the plot, or other elements of the narrative.

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Climax

• Falling action

• Resolution

The most exciting part of a storyline, often depicted by a confrontation between the

protagonist and antagonist.

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Climax

• Falling action

• Resolution

It occurs after the climax and the falling action. It is when you learn what happens to the characters after the conflict is resolved.

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Climax

• Falling action

• Resolution

The stage of the plot after the inciting incident. This is when the plot develops and the tension builds. Often suspense is evoked here.

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Climax

• Falling action

• Resolution

The period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax. This portion of the plot helps deflate the tension and gives the character time to unwind after the emotional scene.

• Exposition

• Rising action

• Climax

• Falling action

• Resolution

When a character struggles with their own opposing desires or beliefs. It happens within them, and it drives their development as a character.

• Indirect Conflict

• External conflict.

• Climax

• Internal conflict

• Direct conflict

A type of conflict that places characters at odds with forces outside themselves, and sometimes beyond their control. These forces stand in the way of a character's motivations and create tension as the character tries to reach their goals.

• Indirect Conflict

• External conflict.

• Characterisation

• Internal conflict

• Direct conflict

The process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed by the use of descriptive adjectives, phrases, or epithets.

• Indirect characterization

• External conflict.

• Internal characterization

• Internal conflict

• Direct characterization

The process by which the personality of a fictitious character is revealed through the character's speech, actions, appearance, thoughts, looks etc.

• Indirect characterization

• External conflict.

• Internal characterization

• Internal conflict

• Direct characterization