Plot
Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution
What are the five stages of plot?
A struggle between opposing forces.
What is conflict?
The people, animals, or things participating in a story.
What are characters?
A series of events in a story.
What is plot?
Where the setting, main characters, and main conflict are introduced.
What is the exposition?
A conflict that occurs within a person.
What is internal conflict?
The main character of the story. Not necessarily “good.”
The time and place of a story.
What is setting?
Where suspense is decreasing and smaller conflicts are addressed.
What is the falling action?
A conflict that occurs with an outside force.
What is external conflict?
The force that opposes the main character. Not necessarily “bad.”
What is an antagonist?
A lesson that is learned from a story.
What is a theme?
Where the story turns and the main character faces the main conflict.
What is the climax?
In this type of conflict, the main character struggles against weather, survival, wildfire, etc.
What is Character versus Nature?
Characters that do not experience character changes during a story.
What is a static character?
Interrupts the main narrative to take the reader back to past events.
What is a flashback?
Where complications arise and build suspense by developing conflicts.
What is the rising action?
In Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone, Harry's feeling of alienation (feeling like an outsider) from both the muggle and wizarding world.
What is an internal conflict?
Characters that experience character changes due to the plot of the story.
What is a dynamic character?
Builds suspense by giving a hint of what might happen next.