Plot Diagram #1
The part of a plot diagram where the characters and setting are introduced.
What is Exposition?
The people and animals in a story.
Who are the characters?
What is the resolution?
When the hero is presented with a problem, challenge, or adventure; the hero must face the beginnings of change.
What is the call to adventure?
When an author shows the personality of a character.
What is indirect characterization?
Another word for the problem of the story.
What is Conflict?
When and where the story takes place.
What is the setting?
Where in the plot diagram the resolution is found (beginning, middle, or end.)
What is the end?
Another name for hero's journey.
What is monomyth?
A quality or characteristic.
What is a trait?
The number of elements/parts in the plot diagram.
What is five?
The turning point and often the most exciting part of the story.
What is the climax?
Where in the plot diagram the climax is found (beginning, middle, or end.)
What is the middle?
The hero comes across a seasoned traveler of the world who give him or her training, equipment, or advice that will help on the journey.
What is Meeting with the Mentor?
To write or explain about something so that it is easily visualized?
What is describe?
Where in the plot diagram the exposition is found (beginning, middle, or end.)
What is the beginning?
Where characters will attempt to resolve the conflict.
What is rising action?
The main character and the person or force opposing the main character.
Who is the protagonist and antagonist?
The author most associated with the concept of the Hero's Journey.
Who is Joseph Campbell?
A word that describes a particular quality of a noun.
What is an adjective?
The lesson that the author wants the reader to learn.
What is the theme?
Where the characters learn to live with the consequences of the climax.
What is falling action?
What is happening around the characters and in the setting which gives the story depth.
What is context?
When the hero returns home or continues the journey, but as a newer, better version of themselves.
"He is a horrible little boy." is an example of this.
What is direct characterization?