Plot Vocabulary

What are the main events of the story?

• Exposition

• Inciting Incident

• Plot

• Resolution

When are problems introduced and suspense builds?

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Climax

• Exposition

What is the end of the story?

• Exposition

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

What is the point where the action/conflict begins?

• Rising Action

• Inciting Incident

• Exposition

• Resolution

What provides background for the story?

• Inciting Incident

• Denoument

• Exposition

• Climax

This is near the end of the story before the resolution

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Resolution

• Falling Action

The most exciting/important point in the story?

• Climax

• Exposition

• Denoument

• Resolution

What is the climax of Cinderella?

• When she goes to the ball

• When the Prince and Cinderella get married

• When Cinderella fits the shoe

• When Cinderella's family gets invited to the ball

True or False: Exposition and Introduction are the same thing

• True

• False

Match the following

• Falling Action

• Cinderella and the Prince plan the wedding

• Rising Action

• Cinderella's family gets the invitation to the ball

• Inciting Incident

• The Prince and Cinderella's Wedding

• Exposition

• Meeting Cinderella, her family, the Prince and the King

• Resolution

• Cinderella meets her Fairy Godmother