Falling Action
When does the falling action typically happen in the story?
What is second to last and/or after the climax and before the resolution?
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 and wraps up the story?
What is the "villain" or main conflict called?
What is the antagonist?
What dissolves 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 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 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 present events that develops the story before 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 flowing into 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 Cinderella.
What is...
Man vs. Man: Cinderella wants to go to the ball and her stepmother and stepsisters give her too much work and she is not able to go.
What is the exposition of Cinderella?
What is a long time ago in a castle. Cinderella, Cinderella's father, stepmother, and stepsisters. Cinderella's mother died, her father remarried, and the stepmother and stepsisters treated her like a servant.
Name one event in the falling action of Cinderella.
What is the prince goes around the village trying to find the right fit for the slipper he has from the ball.
What is the climax in Cinderella?
What is when the prince tries the glass slipper on Cinderella and it fits.
What is the resolution in Cinderella?
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What is the slipper fits Cinderella and her and the prince live happily ever after?
Name at least two events in the rising action of Cinderella.
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Explain why the exposition of a story is important.
The exposition sets a purpose and background information so the reader can understand the story.