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Type I. Briefly summarize your favorite film. Be sure to describe characters and conflicts. 1 ½ pages minimum Must write in complete sentences!. Plot. Short Stories General II. Plot. Plot: Sequence of events in a literary work.

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  1. Type I • Briefly summarize your favorite film. Be sure to describe characters and conflicts. • 1 ½ pages minimum • Must write in complete sentences!

  2. Plot Short Stories General II

  3. Plot • Plot: • Sequence of events in a literary work. • Consists of exposition, complication, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. • Involves both characters and a central conflict.

  4. Parts of Plot • Exposition: • The part of the plot that introduces the characters, the setting, and the basic situation. • The Exposition is your “background information.” D C E Exposition B. F

  5. Parts of Plot • Complication: • Part of the plot directly following exposition • Central conflict is introduced • The Complication is the first time we hear of the major conflict that must be resolved. D E C Complication A F

  6. Parts of Plot • Rising Action: • All events leading up to the climax • The Rising Action can be made of just a few events or can be made of hundreds of events D Rising Action E B F A

  7. Parts of Plot • Climax: • The high point of interest or suspense. • The Climax is the result of the complication, and rising action • The Climax leads to the falling action and resolution. Climax E C B A F

  8. Parts of the Plot • Falling Action: • Events leading to the resolution of the central conflict. • The Falling Action can contain many events, or it can contain just one event. D Falling Action C B A F

  9. Parts of Plot • Resolution: • The end of the central conflict. • The Resolution is usually the end of the story. • FYI: Events after the resolution are called the denouement. D E C B Resolution A

  10. Plot of Forrest Gump • Exposition: • The very beginning of the movie • Forrest is sitting on the park bench… • “If I think real hard, maybe I can remember my first pair of shoes…”

  11. Plot of Forrest Gump • Complication: • Meeting Jenny on the bus to school. • “Can’t sit here…”

  12. Plot of Forrest Gump • Rising Action: • Jenny and Forrest become the best of friends. • Forrest goes away to college • Forrest goes to war

  13. Plot of Forrest Gump • Intensification: • Forrest runs into Jenny at the anti-war demonstration.

  14. Plot of Forrest Gump • Climax: • Jenny comes home • “We were like peas and carrots again.”

  15. Plot of Forrest Gump • Falling Action: • Jenny leaves again • Forrest runs across the country • Jenny and Forrest reunite • Jenny and Forrest marry

  16. Plot of Forrest Gump • Resolution: • Jenny dies

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