Analyzing Plot Structure

How does character motivation affect a story's plot?

• It clarifies the theme of the plot.

• It offers inferences about the plot.

• It determines the plot elements.

• It helps move the plot forward.

Tags

CCSS.RL.11-12.3

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

Discuss the role of plot analysis in understanding fiction.

• Plot analysis is only useful for understanding the setting of the story.

• Plot analysis helps readers understand the weather patterns in the story.

• Plot analysis helps readers understand the sequence of events, the development of characters, and the overall structure of the story.

• Plot analysis has no role in understanding fiction and is a waste of time.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

What is the significance of plot analysis in fiction?

• It has no significance, it's just a waste of time

• Plot analysis only confuses the readers

• It is only important for non-fiction, not for fiction

• It helps to understand the structure, development, and significance of the story.

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Label the parts of a plot map.

a

b

c

d

e

f

Conflict

Climax

Resolution

Exposition

Rising Action

Falling Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Freytag's pyramid is a visual representation of ​ (a)   .

• plot

• conflict

• story

• events

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Match the following excerpts from the text to their corresponding locations in the plot arc:

• Falling Action

• "I drove the great ice-point ahead of me like a battering ram, braced against my right thigh. It struck Benny on the right side"

• Rising Action

• "He was furious. I had thought AM hated me before. I was wrong. It was not even a shadow of the hate he now slavered from every printed circuit"

• Climax

• "And Benny was suddenly pulled straightforward"

• Resolution

• "AM will be all the madder for that. It makes me a little happier. And yet...AM has won, simply..."

• Exposition

• "High above us in the computer chamber, and it did not shiver in the chill, oily breeze that blew eternally through the main cavern"

Tags

CCSS.RL.2.10

CCSS.RL.2.2

CCSS.RL.2.3

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.4.4

Label the story plot diagram

g

i

j

e

d

Finale

Resolution

Falling Action

Exposition

Beginning

Rising Action

Climax

Issue

Realization

Problem

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Label Plot Mountain

e

d

c

b

a

falling action

climax

exposition

rising action

resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.7

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.6.9

Label the parts of the linear-narrative plot chart

a

b

c

d

e

climax

exposition

falling action

rising action

resolution

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5

Label the parts of a plot map.

a

b

c

d

e

f

Rising Action

Climax

Exposition

Resolution

Falling Action

Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5