Plot
Setting
Plot vs. Setting
100

The main problem the main character faces.


What is conflict?

100

Where the story happens.

What is location?

100

Maria must escape from a burning building before it collapses.

What is plot?

200

The event starts the main conflict.

What is Inciting Incident?

200

When the story happens.

What is time period?

200

The story takes place in Alaska during winter, where temperatures stay below freezing for months.

What is setting?

300

The point when the conflict reaches its peak.

What is climax?

300

The feeling the reader has that is created by the setting.

What is mood?

300

This part of the excerpt is the plot:

Because the town has no electricity, the characters must find another way to communicate across long distances.

What is, "...the characters must find another way to communicate across long distances..."?

400

The end of the story.

What is resolution?

400

The situation surrounding the events of a story.

What is context?

400

The setting in the following excerpt:

In 1965, during a time of segregation laws, a teenager decides to stand up for equal rights at her school.

What is, "In 1965, during a time of segregation laws,"?

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