Influence of Events and Plot

The beginning part of the plot with the information about the setting, characters, and the situation is called the _____________.

• Beginning
• Anecdote
• Plot
• Exposition

What is setting? 

• The time and location in which a story takes place
• A series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict.
• a struggle between two people or things in a short story.
• What you turn on the washer

What is a Inference 

• What you see + what you know
• The setting of a short story is the time and place in which it happens
• A plot is a series of events and character actions that relate to the central conflict

What is the main idea?

• What the text is mostly about 
• Facts that support the main idea 
• Description of the cause and effect 
• Key ideas that support the general idea 

Events in the story that are leading up to the most important part of the story, or events that build action in the story

• Conflict
• Plot
• Rising Action
• Setting

The  most important part in the story, when things start to change for the main character

• Expostion
• Conflict
• Climax
• Falling Action

What are the events that lead to the resolution?

• Climax
• Conflict
• Rising Action
• Falling Action

Which part of the plot
introduces the characters?

• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action

Which part of the plot is
the most intense?

• falling action
• exposition
• exposition
• climax

Choose the two words that best complete the sentence.
During the exposition, it is important to introduce the ________ and the ________.

• characters, setting 
• characters, falling action 
• climax, conflict 
• conflict, resolution