All About Plot
The main events of a play, novel, movie, or similar work.
What is plot?
What is a noun?
The time and place in which a story is told.
What is the setting?
A word that takes the place of a noun or nouns.
What is a pronoun?
The obstacles (internal or external) that characters face in a story that drive the plot forward.
What is conflict?
What is an adjective?
In a story, when the characters, setting, and situation are introduced.
What is exposition?
What is a verb?
In a story, when the conflict begins and develops.
What is the rising action?
A word that describes a verb (usually ending in -ly).
What is an adverb?
In a story, when the conflict gets most intense.
What is the climax?
A word that joins two or more words or phrases (think FANBOYS).
What is a conjuction?
What is the falling action?
A word or phrase that shows strong emotion.
What is an interjection?
What is the resolution?
Scenes from the past. It may be a memory, a dream, or a shift in time.
What is a flashback?
This genre incorporates elements of actual or imagined science and technology. Often set in the future, in outer space, on other planets, or in an imaginary place.
What is science fiction?