Plot
This part of the plot is the introduction of the characters and setting.
What is the exposition?
The central problem in the story and can be any form of struggle the main character faces. Can be internal or external.
What is the conflict?
Where and when a story takes place.
What is the setting?
The people or animals in a story; the main one is the protagonist and their enemy is called the antagonist.
What are characters?
The lens from which the story is told.
What is point of view?
This part of the plot is where the main problem of the story first begins.
What is the inciting incident?
The main character struggles with decisions, limitations, or their moral compass.
What is character vs self conflict?
The setting can sometimes be directly tied to this in a story.
What is the conflict?
Well-developed, we know many things about them.
What is a round character?
Story is most likely told by the protagonist and will use pronouns such as "I", "me", "my", and "We"
What is first person?
This part of the plot is where events complicate and tension rises.
What is the rising action?
The main character struggles against other people.
What is character vs character conflict?
This is what time of day or year, or the time period a story is set in.
What is time?
Not well developed, and we know little about them.
What is a flat character?
Story is told by a narrator who addresses the reader as "you", "your", and "yours".
What is second person?
This part of the plot is the turning point of the story and the highest point of tension.
What is the climax?
The main character struggles against weather, animals, or the environment.
What is character vs. nature conflict?
Where the story takes place, what the weather is like, what social conditions apply.
What is place?
Undergo important internal changes in the story as a result of the events.
What is a dynamic character?
Story is told by a narrator seeing the story through the eyes of a single character and using “he,” “she,” “it,” “they,” “his,” hers,” and “their” pronouns.
What is third person limited?
These are the final two parts of a plot, when events get settled, the theme is revealed, and the story wraps up.
What are the falling action and resolution?
The main character struggles against government, laws, ideas, and practices of others.
What is character vs society conflict?
The feeling that your setting invokes; also called atmosphere.
Remain the same throughout the story, events do not cause them to change.
What are static characters?
Story is told by a narrator who is all-seeing and all-knowing and can shift from one character’s mind to another.
What is third person omniscient?