Plot Story Elements

What is Plot?

• A struggle or problem

• Time and Place

• Sequence of Events that make up a story

• People, Animals, or Creatures

What is Rising Action?

• Peak Action

• Conflicts & Complications that develop the story

• Background Information

• The Result or Conclusion

What is Falling Action?

• The Action that Caused you to Fall

• Conflicts & Complications

• The Events after the Climax (lead to the Resolution)

• Resolution or Conclusion

What is Included in the Exposition?

• Characters, Resolution, & Conflict

• The Theme

• Climax & Conflict

• Characters, Setting, and the Introduction of the Problem or Conflict

The chain of events that make up a story

• Characters

• Conflict

• Theme

• Plot

Which part of the story is represented by this blue bar?

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• resolution

Which part of the story is represented by this blue blob?

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• resolution

What is the Climax?

• The Turning Point in the Story

• The Tricking Point

• The top of the mountain

• The Twisting Point

What Two Story Elements are often Grouped Together?

• Climax and turning point

• Falling Action & Resolution

• Rising Action & Falling Action

• Rising Action & Exposition

The Problem is introduced to start the ________

• Character Plot

• Conflict

• Rising Action

• Tension