Falling Action
When does the falling action typically happen in the story?
What after the climax and before the resolution (usually near the very end of a story)?
Where does the climax occur in the text?
What is the closer to the end of the story; before falling action, and after rising action?
Where is the resolution take place in the text?
What is the end?
Is the rising action the shortest or the longest part of a passage?
What is the longest?
When does the exposition occur in a story?
What is the beginning?
What does the falling action do?
What is it begins to resolve the conflict, tie up any loose ends, and wrap up the story?
What is the "villain" or main conflict called?
What is the antagonist?
What dissolves or goes away in the end of the story?
What is the conflict or problem?
Typically how many rising action events are on a plot diagram in a short story?
What is, usually at least five to six in a short story?
The main character in the text is called the what?
What is the protagonist?
How many events are typically in the falling action of a short story?
What is at least one or two?
What happens during the climax?
The character is involved in a major event that turns the story (for good or bad). It is the ah-ha moment for the reader.
What does the resolution do to the plot?
What is concludes the falling action and provides closure for the reader.
What is the purpose of the rising action?
What is to build suspense and tension, while presenting events that will lead to / result in the climax.
What does the exposition introduce?
What is the setting, characters and introduces the problem?
How does the falling action begin to resolve the conflict of the story?
What is by wrapping up the events of the story and offering answers that lead to the resolution?
What are the four main types of conflict?
What is man vs. man, man vs.nature, man vs. society, and man vs. self?
What does the resolution contribute to the plot?
What is concludes the falling action and provides a solution to the problem presented?
Name the conflict or problem that develops in Alma.
What is...
Character versus Supernatural: Alma wants to touch the doll in the shop without realizing that the dolls are posessed.
What is the exposition of Alma?
What is a - a small European village with cobblestone roads. It is snowing so is likely winter. There are no other people in the streets and we see a wall that is filled with the graffiti of local (missing) children's names.
Name one event in the falling action of Alma.
Answers / options vary.
What is the climax in Alma?
What is when the little girl touches the doll and her soul gets sucked inside the doll?
What is the resolution in Alma?
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What is, the girl views the shop from inside the doll and knows she is trapped. Slowly another doll rises into the shop window, revealing the next little girl that will be lured into the store.
Name at least two events in the rising actions of Alma.
Answers / options vary.
Explain why the exposition of a story is important.
The exposition sets a purpose and provides the background information so that the reader can understand the story that is about to unfold.