Literature Structure

Plot

100

The most exciting part, where the conflict is the worst, and everything seems most intense.

What is the climax of a fictional text?

200

What are the 5 parts of a plot?

Exposition, Rising action, Climax, Falling action, Resolution.

300

What is the exposition?

The beginning of the story that introduces characters and the setting

400

Between Climax and Resolution.

Where does Falling Action happen on the plot structure line?

500

The events that lead up to the Climax.

What is rising action?

Advance Plot

100

Create the plot line.

Answer may vary

200

Name the Advance Plot:

Buzz and Woody scaring Sid to get away from him and making their way to the moving van to get back to Andy.

Climax

300

Name the advance plot: 

Goldie Locks eating all the porridge, sitting in all the chairs, and laying in all 3 beds.

Parallel Episode

400

What is a subplot?

A side story to the main story, usually about a minor character's problems

500

What is the Resolution?

What happens on the plot structure line after Falling Action?

Conflict

100

The main problem of a story.

What is the conflict?

200

What are the 4 types of conflicts?

character vs. character; character vs. self; character vs. Nature; character vs. Society.

300

Name  the conflict: 

An old woman wishes to reconnect with her family but is slowly losing her memory.

Man V. Self

400

Name the Conflict: 

A man seeks to find the murderer who killed his father.

Man V. Man

500

Name the Conflict:

A teacher struggles to convince a town to provide more school funding.

Man V. Society

Conflict

100

Give an example of Man V. Society

Answer may vary

200

Give an example of Man V. Self

Answers may vary.

300

Name the Conflict:

A video rental store owner competes with the rise of streaming services.

Man V. Society

400

Name the Conflict:

A photographer captures monsters by trapping them in photographs.

Man V Man

500

Name the Conflict: 

A person is buried alive inside a coffin.

Man V. Nature

Identify the plot

100

What story element does this exemplify?

"Maycomb was an old town, but it was a tired old town when I first knew it. In rainy weather the streets turned to red slop; grass drew on the sidewalks, the courthouse sagged in the square. Somehow, it was hotter then; a black dog suffered ona summer's day; bony mules hitched to Hoover carts flicked flieds in the sweltering shade of the live oaks on the square."

The setting

200

What story element does this exemplify?

"Listen up.  You're in trouble.  Word is the Capitol's furious about you showing them up in the arena.  The one thing they can't stand is being laughed at and they're the joke of Panem" (356-357).

Conflict

300

What story element does this exemplify?

In Disney's Beauty and the Beast, After the fight at the Beast's castle and after the Beast becomes human, He realizes Belle has saved him with her love, and then all of the other characters who were affected by the enchantment slowly return to their human form.

Falling Action

400

What story element does this exemplify?

• Timon and Pumbaa, wandering, come across Simba sleeping in the desert, alone and in danger from circling vultures.
• Timon and Pumbaa bring Simba into their world.
• They prove crucial to Simba growing up as we see them take take him under their wing and imbue him with their philosophy.

Subplot

500

What story element does this exemplify?

After Miguel, in Coco, goes back to the world of the living, the next scene shows the next Day of the Dead Celebration, and Mama Coco join all of the dead family members who visited the land of the living.

Resolution