Plot Structure
Types of Conflict
Plot Elements
Some of Everything
Mrs. Thomas
100
What part of the developmen provides background information about important characters, problem/conflict and setting?
Exposition; Introduction
100
A conflict that exists within the mind of a character who is torn between opposing forces is called what kind of conflict?
Internal
100
The time and place of a story is what?
Setting
100
What point of view is a story written in when the story is narrated by a character in the story?
First Person Point of View
100
What is the hero in the story called?
Protagonist
200
What is another name for turning point?
Climax
200
What kind of conflict exists when a character struggles against some outside force?
External
200
What is the sequence of events in a story?
Plot
200
What genre is a made up story based in a period of time that actually occured?
Historical Fiction
200
The contrast between what is expected and what actually exists or happens
Irony
300
What is the part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict?
Resolution
300
When the antagonist is a person, what type of conflict occurs?
Man vs Man
300
The big idea or lesson in a story is what?
Theme
300
What point of view is a story written in when the story is narrated by a character not in the story?
Third Person Point of View
300
The narrator telling the story is not a character in the story and knows all.
3rd Person Omniscient
400
What is the action that follows the climax?
Falling Action
400
What type of conflict occurs when the protagonist struggles against weather, survival, wildlife, etc?
Man vs Nature
400
What is the struggle between opposing forces?
Conflict
400
When an author creates a character that comes alive to the reader, they are using what?
Character Development or Characterization
400
A logical guess based on facts
Inference
500
What is the part of the plot that adds complications to the plot's problems?
Rising Action
500
What type of conflict occurs when the protagonist struggles against a group of people or an organization?
Man vs Society
500
What is the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage suspense?
Mood
500
When the author gives clues or hints about what is going to happen in the story it is called...?
Foreshadowing
500
Characters that do not change or have a main part in the story
Minor Character
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