Plot Diagram
What is the exposition?
Setting, Situation, Characters
What are Two types of conflict ?
external conflict and internal conflict
Where is the Setting?
Boston, Massachusetts 1727
What is the Exposition of the story?
Sleepy Hollow, New York, Bank of the Hudson
What is the Inciting Incident?
The point where the story actually takes off. (Background infor moves to Action)
What is first person?
When the story is told from the point of view of a character within the story.
Who are the main characters?
Tom Walker, Mrs. Walker, and The Devil
What is the climax of the story?
Ichabod runs into the Headless Horseman and tries to get away.
What is the Rising Action?
Events that carry the story towards the climax.
What is third person?
The story is told from the perspective of an outside observer.
What is the Climax of the story?
Wife tries to take the deal. Disappears. Forcing Tom into the woods to take the deal himself.
What is the resolution of the story?
Brom and Katrina get married. Ichabod never seen again.
What is the climax?
The turning point of a story.
What is theme
The message of life illustrated through the story
Who is the protagonist?
Tom
Was the headless horseman a main character?
Defend your answer with evidence and its right.
What is the resolution?
How the story ends and ties up all the loose ends.
Define plot.
The events that happen in the story
Who is the Antagonist?
Devil / Tom's Wife
What was Ichabod's fatal flaw?
Greed