Plot Diagram
Plot Diagram 2
Character
Story Elements
Story Elements 2
100
Background information that introduces the story.
What is the exposition?
100
The Resolution
What is the conclusion of the story where loose ends are tied up.
100
A person, animal, or creature who takes part in the action of a story.
What is character?
100
Flashback
What is the insertion of an earlier event in the normal sequence of a story?
100
The Resolution
What is the conclusion of the story where loose ends are tied up?
200
Initiating Event
What is the beginning of the conflict?
200
The sequence of events in a story.
What is plot?
200
A description of a character’s personality: honest, brave, persistent, etc.
What is character trait?
200
Foreshadowing
What is use of clues to hint at coming events?
200
The speaker who tells the story.
What is the narrator?
300
Rising Action
What is the part of the story in which the tension rises?
300
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
300
Dialogue
What is the story element that shows the talking that takes place between characters?
300
Motivation
What term explains the reasons for the actions of a character?
300
The problem in the story, a struggle for the character.
What is conflict?
400
The highest point of conflict in the story.
What is climax?
400
The Setting
What is story element relates to where and when?
400
The main character in the story who causes or is at the center of most of the action.
What is the protagonist?
400
A general lesson about life that one learns from the story.
What is theme?
400
Internal Conflict (character vs. self)
When a a character struggles with himself/herself, that is an example of what?
500
The events that occur after the climax and lead to the resolution.
What is falling action?
500
The Climax
What part of the plot diagram is often considered the most exciting?
500
The character or force that opposes the main character.
What is antagonist?
500
1st Person Point of View
If the story is told by a character that is in the story, and he/she refers to himself/herself as I, in what point of view is the story being told?
500
A character struggles with others or with the outside world.
What is external conflict?
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