The first thing that happens in a plot structure.
EXPOSITION
Earth is _____________ billion years old.
4.5
Every sentence begins with a _______ letter.
CAPITAL, or UPPERCASE
Conflict in which a character fights things/machines humans have created.
CHARACTER VS. TECHNOLOGY
The city in the United States with the most people.
NEW YORK CITY
The point of maximum tension before there is a release to the falling action.
CLIMAX
One of the first complex organisms to live on Earth was the ___________.
TRILOBITE
Every sentence must end with a _______________.
PUNCTUATION MARK
(period, exclamation mark (!), or question mark (?))
Conflict in which a character struggles against forces in the environment.
CHARACTER VS. NATURE
How wide was the asteroid that collided with Earth 65 million years ago at 50,000 miles per hour?
6 Miles
The central struggle that motivates the character.
CONFLICT.
The event that wiped out all non-flying dinosaur life.
Every sentence must have a _____________, or person, place, thing, quality, or idea that the sentence is about.
SUBJECT
Conflict in which a character battles things that are not real, that cannot happen or aren't understood, like ghosts or witches or spirits.
CHARACTER VS. SUPERNATURAL
How many types of character conflict are there in literature and other stories?
Seven (7)
The final part of a plot structure that closes the conflict.
RESOLUTION
Place in Africa that contained the oldest evidence of human beings.
The _________________ Gorge
OLDUVAI GORGE
Every complete sentence must make _________.
SENSE
Conflict in which a character is battling himself, or herself, inside.
CHARACTER VS. SELF
The name of a type of story that explains where, and how, things began.
ORIGIN STORY
One of the three things the audience learns during a plot's EXPOSITION.
1. SETTING, or
2. CHARACTERS, or
3. TIME PERIOD
The testing method used to find out how old the Earth is.
RADIOMETRIC
Every sentence must have a __________, that either shows the action or connects the subject to the action of a sentence.
VERB
Conflict in which a character has to battle forces created by whoever is ruling or making the rules in order to change the world.
CHARACTER VERSUS SOCIETY
Exposition, Conflict, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, and the Resolution are used to diagram a story's _____________.
PLOT