Plot Elements

This is the correct sequence of a plot diagram:​ (a)   ,​ (b)   , ​ (c)   , ​ (d)   , ​ (e)   , and Resolution.

• Exposition
• Conflict
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action
• Resolution

Match the following

• Resolution

• The imperial army battles the Huns in the snow, and Mulan causes an avalanche that buries them.

• Rising Action

• Mulan is a girl living in China during the Han Dynasty, who wants more than anything for her parents to be proud of her.

• Exposition

• Mulan learns that her family always loved her for who she was.

• Conflict

• Mulan disarms the leader of the Huns and Mushu blows him up with fireworks.

• Climax

• Mulan worries that her family will not be proud of her for who she is inside.

Mrs. Dudoit calls this "the exhale" because it is after all the tension and excitement of the climax and is when the character gets to unwind.

• Falling Action

• The Resolution

• The Anticlimax

How the story ends and the conflict is resolved

• Resolution

• Climax

The ​ (a)   is the moment of greatest tension or intensity in the story. It is a ​ (b)   point that will change the course of the story.

• climax
• turning
• rising action
• main

The exposition is found at the ​ (a)   of a story.

• beginning
• middle
• end

Match the following

• The Man in the Yellow Suit wants to make money off the spring and the Tucks' secret.

• Two Types of Conflict

• Winnie must decide between drinking the water and living forever, or living a long natural life.

• Internal Conflict

• A struggle between a character and an outside force, or one that takes place inside their mind.

• External Conflict

Answer explanation

Internal - a conflict or struggle within oneself

External - a conflict or struggle with an outside force

These major events help build the reader's interest in the story and develop the conflict and characters before the climax.

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Climax

• Exposition