Plot
Setting
Plot vs. Setting
100

What is the main problem the main character faces?


Conflict

100

Where the story happens is...

Location

100

Maria must escape from a burning building before it collapses.

Plot

200

What event starts the main conflict?

Inciting Incident 

200

When the story happens...

Tiem Period

200

The story takes place in Alaska during winter, where temperatures stay below freezing for months.

Setting

300

What is the point when the conflict reaches its highest level?

Climax

300

What is the feeling the reader has that is created by the setting?

Mood

300

Which part of the excerpt is the plot?

Because the town has no electricity, the characters must find another way to communicate across long distances.

"...the characters must find another way to communicate across long distances..."

400

What is the beginning and end of the story called?

Exposition, Resolution

400

What is the situation surrounding the events of a story?

Context

400

Which part in the excerpt is the setting?

In 1965, during a time of segregation laws, a teenager decides to stand up for equal rights at her school.

In 1965, during a time of segregation laws,

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