Plot Diagram Parts
The first stage of the Plot Diagram
What is ... Exposition?
The most intense moment
What is ... Climax?
The main character's name
What is Billy Weaver?
What the Landlady did to her pets.
What is... stuffing / taxidermy?
Mood of the story
What is... suspenseful / mysterious / dark?
The second stage of the plot diagram
What is... Rising Action?
The structure that is used to organize the events of a story
(hint: think the name of what we just learned)
Name of the place Billy stayed at
What is... Bed and Breakfast?
What happened to the past guests at the Bed and Breakfast.
What is... the landlady stuffed them
The kind of ending in THIS short story
(hint: the resolution can have two kinds of endings)
An open ending
The third stage of the plot diagram
What is... Climax?
The Exposition provides what?
- who
- what
- where
Bitter drink that was given to Billy by the Landlady
What is tea?
The highest (most intense) point of the short story "The LandLady"
1. Billy Weaver finds out the other guests never left.
2. The landlady tells Billy that she stuffed her dead pets.
3. Billy recognized where the other guests names were from.
The events of a story
What is ... PLOT
The fourth part of the plot diagram
What is ... Falling Action?
The stage that STARTS to provide tension / suspense
What is... Rising Action?
Pets that the landlady had
(bonus 50 points for the kind of breed of pets)
What is dog and bird?
(dachshund AND parrot)
What will happen to Billy at the end
The audience knows what will happen to Billy before Billy even knows. This is called...
What is... dramatic Irony?
The fifth part of the plot diagram
What is... resolution / conclusion?
The Resolution can provide an open ending
(true / false)
What is... true?
Names of the past guests at the Bed and breakfast
Gregory Temple and Christopher Mulholland
The falling Action of The LandLady
The landlady continues to talk with Billy like normal after she tells him about the other guests and her pets. Billy cannot do anything to stop what will happen to him.
The first stage of a plot diagram is called the Exposition because...
What is ... it EXPLAINS the background / context of the story