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.5.3

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

Falling Action

Rising Action

Exposition

Resolution

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:

• Exposition

• "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"

• Rising 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"

• Climax

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

• Resolution

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

• Falling Action

• "And Benny was suddenly pulled straightforward"

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

Exposition

Realization

Climax

Resolution

Problem

Rising Action

Issue

Falling Action

Finale

Beginning

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

exposition

resolution

rising action

falling action

climax

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

resolution

exposition

climax

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

Label the parts of a plot map.

a

b

c

d

e

f

Resolution

Rising Action

Climax

Falling Action

Exposition

Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.3

CCSS.RL.9-10.5