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Plot

Plot. A Sequence of Events. © 2003 clipart.com. What Is Plot?. Plot is a series of related events that make up a story or drama. Plot is “what happens” in a story. What Makes Up a Plot?. A plot has four parts. A basic story map shows the basic parts of a plot. Basic Situation (Exposition).

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Plot

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  1. Plot A Sequence of Events

  2. © 2003 clipart.com What Is Plot? • Plot is a series of related events that make up a story or drama. • Plot is “what happens” in a story.

  3. What Makes Up a Plot? • A plot has four parts. A basic story map shows the basic parts of a plot. Basic Situation (Exposition) Complications Climax Resolution

  4. Parts of Plot Basic Situation (Exposition) • The basic situation (also called the exposition) is the first part of a plot, which presents the main characters and their conflicts.

  5. Basic Situation (Exposition) Parts of Plot • Complications arise when the characters take steps to deal with the conflict introduced in the exposition. Complications

  6. Basic Situation (Exposition) Complications Parts of Plot • The climax is the most intense moment in the plot, the moment at which something happens that reveals how the conflict will turn out. Climax

  7. Basic Situation (Exposition) Complications Climax Parts of Plot • In the resolution, or denouement, some or all of the problems in the story are resolved, and the story is brought to a close. Resolution

  8. Revealing the Plot • A writer typically reveals the story’s events in chronological order—starting at the beginning of the story and telling about each event as it happens. Beginning End

  9. Revealing the Plot • Some writers interrupt the chronological order of events by inserting flashbacks in which they show a scene or scenes from the past. Past Event Beginning End

  10. I followed them, at a distance, waiting for what would happen. My heart was troubled about going east, yet I knew that I must go. • from “By the Waters of Babylon”by Stephen Vincent Benét From “By the Waters of Babylon” from The Selected Works of Stephen Vincent Benét. Copyright © 1937 by Stephen Vincent Benét; copyright renewed © 1964 by Thomas C. Benét, Stephanie P. Mahin, and Rachel Benét Lewis. Reproduced by permission of Brandt & Hochman Literary Agents, Inc. Revealing the Plot • Foreshadowing is the use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in the plot. • Foreshadowing arouses reader curiosity and increases suspense.

  11. Basic situation Flashback Resolution What Have You Learned? Match the terms in the box with the correct definitions. Resolution Flashback Basic situation _____________—The first part of a plot, which presents the main characters and their conflicts _____________—An interruption in the chronological order of events in which a scene or scenes from the past are shown _____________—The last part of a plot, which brings the story to a close

  12. The End

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