Plot Structure
Plot in Rent Party Jazz
Plot Elements
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100
Another name for the climax
What is Turning Point?
100

What is the exposition in "Rent Party Jazz"?

Characters and setting

Jackson Square

Characters- Sonny, Mama, Smilin' Jack, and neighbors

100

The time and place of a story

What is setting

100

point of view is a story written in when the story is narrated by a character in the story?

What is first person point of view?

100

What is the last part of plot called?

Resolution

200
the action that follows the climax
What is falling action?
200

What is the rising action in "Rent Party Jazz"

When Mama loses her job and tells Sonny she will not be able to pay rent without another job.

200

the sequence of events in a story

What is plot?

200

point of view is a story written in when the story is narrated by a character not in the story

What is third person point of view?

200

What is the first part of plot called?

Exposistion

300
the author's introduction to the characters, setting, and situation
What is exposition?
300

What is the Turning point of the action (beginning of the climax) in "Renting Jazz"?


When Sonny meets Smilin' Jack and tells him about his problem.

300

The big idea or lesson in a story

What is theme?

300

What comes first, the resolution or exposition?

Exposition!

400

the part of the plot that concludes the falling action by revealing or suggesting the outcome of the conflict

What is resolution

400

What is the Climax of "Rent Party 

Jazz"?

When Smilin' Jackson helps throw a rent party! They make money there by Smiling Jackson playing music!

400

the struggle between opposing forces

What is conflict?

400

What comes first the climax or falling action

What is climax?

500
the part of the plot that adds complications to the plot's problems
What is rising action?
500

What is the resolution of "Rent Party  Jazz"?

When Mama had enough money to pay rent and there was even extra for other people who might need to! Mamas' problem was fixed:)

500
the feeling created in the reader by a literary work or passage suspense
What is mood?
500

Name the five elements of plot in order

What is exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution