Plot, Characterization, and Conflict Review

The series of events in a story.

• Plot

• Conflict

• Climax

• Fiction

The time, place, and period in which the action takes place.

• Plot

• Setting

• Exposition

• Rising Action

The beginning of the plot that introduces the story's main character(s), setting, and situation.

• Rising Action

• Conflict

• Setting

• Exposition

The central part of the story during which various problems arise after a conflict is introduced.

• Plot

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Climax

The turning point or action that occurs when the problem is about to be resolved. The point of highest emotion in the story.

• Plot

• Resolution

• Conflict

• Climax

The actions following the climax that lead the reader into the story's end.

• Conflict

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Resolution

The part of the story in which the problems are solved and the action comes to an end.

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Climax

The struggle between people or forces

• Conflict

• Climax

• Character

• Plot

A struggle that takes place within a character's mind when he or she is challenged with a choice

• Internal Conflict

• External Conflict

• Man vs. Nature

• Man vs. Technology

A struggle between a character and an outside force

• Internal conflict

• External conflict

• Man vs Self

• Characterization