Plot
The sequence of events in a narrative.
What is plot?
A struggle between two opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The people, animals, and imaginary things who take part in the action of a work of literature.
What is a character?
The perspective from which a story is told.
What is point of view?
The time, place, and conditions in which a story takes place.
What is a setting?
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and Resolution.
What are the stages of a plot diagram?
What are examples of external conflict? (man vs. )
What is man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. technology.
The most important characters in literary works.
What's a main character?
A character in the story is actually telling the story himself/herself
What is first person point of view?
This the the beginning of the plot, where the setting, characters, and background information is introduced.
What is the exposition?
An issue that a character faces within him/herself.
What is internal conflict?
The way an author or an actor describes or shows what a character is like.
What is characterization?
The narrator uses the pronouns, "she", "he", and "them", but only knows the thoughts, feelings, and actions of one character.
What is 3rd person limited point of view?
The part of the story that introduces the conflict, and we wouldn't have a story without this.
What is the initiating event or inciting incident?
This is the most exciting part of the story, when the character comes face to face with conflict.
What is the climax of the plot?
A struggle that takes place between the main character and some outside forces.
What is external conflict?
The main character in a story.
What is protagonist?
The narrator uses the pronouns "I", "me" , "us," the story is written in..
What is first person point of view?
A message the author is trying to get across to the reader.
What is theme?
The part of the story's plot line in which the problem of the story is resolved or worked out.
What is the resolution?
Internal and External
What are the two types of conflict?
How do we know a character trait in a story?
What are how they think, speak, act, look, and effect others?
A narrator tells the story, and know the thoughts, feelings, actions, and motives of all characters in the story.
What is third person omniscient point of view?
What is internal conflict?