conflicts
plot structure
narrative terms A
narrative terms B
100

A struggle between opposing forces.

What is literary conflict?

100

The first part of plot.

An explanation of setting, characters, and other information.

What is exposition?

100

a story written using one's imagination.

What is fiction?
100

The one telling the story.

What is a narrator?

200

a conflict that involves a person struggling against another person or other people

What is person vs. others?

(or person vs. person, or character vs. character)

200

The second part of plot where tension is building up.

What is rising action?

200

the sequence of events in a story.

What is plot?

200

how an author develops characters in a story.

What is characterization?

300

a conflict that involves a person struggling against a forest, animals, weather, and the wilderness (natural forces)

What is person vs. nature?

300

The turning point of a story, where tension is at the highest level and something changes the course of the story.

What is the climax of a story?

300

The time, place, and context in which a story occurs.

What is setting?
300

Telling what a character is like using describing words.

What is Direct Characterization?

400

the conflict that involves a character against an organization, government, laws, or beliefs.

What is person vs society?

400

The fourth part of plot, things are settling down after the drama in the climax.

What is Falling Action?

400

A hint at something to come later in a story.

What is foreshadowing?

400

Showing what a character is like using their words, actions, thoughts, effects on others, etc.

What is Indirect Characterization?
500

a conflict where a character has a struggle within, like a secret, decision, or emotion.

What is person vs. self?

500

The final stage of plot. How the story ends, and many times conflict and other information is settled.

What is Resolution?

500

What the characters' lives are like: how they live, what they believe, etc.

What do we mean by the "context" of a story?

500
Conversation between characters.

What is dialogue?

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