Plot Elements Lessons

At the _______ the conflict is resolved and the outcome of the plot usually becomes clear.

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Resolution

• Climax

• Subplot

The _______ is an additional, or secondary, plot in a story.

• Subplot

• Plot

• Falling Action

• Parallel Episodes

• Foreshadowing

What is the "Exposition" in a story?

• The stage of the plot that develops the conflict.

• Where the characters, setting and conflict are introduced.

• When the effects of the climax become clear.

• The written conversation between two or more people in a story.

• The time and place of a story.

What is the "Rising Action" of a story?

• When the story reaches a turning point at which the conflict is resolved.

• When the effects of the climax become clear.

• When the writer provides hints that suggest future events sin a story.

• When characters try to solve the problem as complications are introduced.

• The message about life or human nature that the writer shares with the reader.

These occur when elements of a plot are repeated several times in a course of a story.

• Theme

• Exposition

• Parallel Episodes

• Paraphrasing

• Foreshadowing

Foreshadowing in a story occurs when __________.

• the author wants the reader to learn a moral from the story.

• the setting, time, and place of a story.

• the series of events in a story.

• a struggle between opposing forces.

• when a writer provides hints that suggest future events in a story.

To ____________ a plot, you examine the way events and actions in each stage increase or help to resolve the conflict.

• Analyze

• Infer

• Paraphrase

• Cite

• None of the above

The "Falling Action" in a story occurs when __________

• the story reaches a turning point and the conflict is resolved.

• we meet the characters in a story and find out what they want.

• the story reaches an ending that reveals the final outcome.

• characters try to solve the problem as complications are introduced.

• the effects of the climax become clear.

Name the following part of plot

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• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution

A struggle between opposing forces is __________.

• Plot

• Exposition

• Conflict

• Complications

• None of the above.