Exposition
What is revealed in the exposition?
Characters and setting.
A conflict is sometimes called a what?
What is a problem/inciting incident.
What is the rising action?
Events leading up to the climax.
What is the turning point/point of highest tension in the story?
Climax
What is the resolution?
The ending of the story
Why do stories have an exposition?
To introduce the setting and characters, and set the scene for the story.
What is a conflict?
A struggle between two opposing forces.
In the story The Tell-Tale Heart, what is one event included in the rising action?
Answers may vary.
The climax occurs after what events?
rising action
Does the resolution occur in the beginning, middle, or the end of a plot diagram?
End
This occurs first in the Plot Diagram.
What is exposition.
Name 4 types of conflict.
Person vs.self, vs. person, vs. nature, vs. society, vs. supernatural
What is events occurs after the rising action?
Climax, falling action, resolution.
Give an example of a climatic moment in a story.
(various answers)
True/False: "Everyone lived happily ever after" is an example of a resolution.
What occurs after the exposition?
What is the conflict/problem/inciting incident
What are the two categories of conflict?
internal and external
What events occur before the rising action?
The exposition
What was the climax of the story "The Tell-Tale Heart"
When the insane man murders the old man.
What occurs before the resolution?
The falling action.
In a text, where does the exposition appear?
In the first paragraph/very beginning
What is it called when a character is struggling with an internal conflict?
Person vs. self.
Does the rising action occur in the beginning, middle, or end?
Beginning.
Does the climax occur at the beginning, middle, or end of a story?
What is resolved in the resolution?
The main conflict of a story.