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

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Match the following

• Conflict

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

• Resolution

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

• Exposition

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

• Rising Action

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

• Climax

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

How the story ends and the conflict is resolved

• Resolution

• Climax

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

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

• beginning
• middle
• end

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Match the following

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

• Internal Conflict

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

• External Conflict

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

• Two Types of Conflict

Answer explanation

Internal - a conflict or struggle within oneself

External - a conflict or struggle with an outside force

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

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

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5