Conflict
The struggle or tension within the script.
What is the conflict?
Happens at the beginning of the story.
What is exposition?
An event that causes the story to happen.
What is the Inciting Incident?
Occurs at the end of the story.
What is the resolution?
What is the protagonist?
Conflict that occurs with another person.
What is person vs. person?
The kind of information we gather at the beginning of the script.
What is background information?
The part of the story after the inciting incident.
What is the Rising Action?
A plot position that is in both the 6 point plot diagram and the traditional plot diagram.
What is the Resolution?
The person or thing that stops the protagonist from getting what they want.
What is the antagonist?
A type of conflict that occurs within the mind.
What is person vs. themselves?
The position of exposition on a plot diagram.
What is the first position?
The point of the story in which the story is heading toward a resolution.
What is the Falling Action?
What is the last position?
Examples include: Jafar, time, society, etc.
What is the antagonist?
A type of conflict that occurs with machines.
What is person vs. technology?
This happens at the end of the exposition, but before the rising action.
What is the inciting incident?
The most energetically charged part of the story.
What is the climax?
Another name for the world after the story takes place.
What is Stasis B?
One example is Peter Pan.
What is the protagonist?
A type of conflict that occurs with a large group of people.
What is person vs. society?
Another name for the world at the beginning of the story.
What is Stasis A?
What is the crisis?
A fancy French word for the resolution of a script.
What is Denouement?
A person that highlights the characteristics of the protagonist
What is Foil?