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Chapter 1: Notes on Plot

Chapter 1: Notes on Plot . This will go on Page 5 in your notebook. Plot. A series of related events, each event connected to the next, like links in a chain. Plot Diagram. Climax. Complications. Resolution/ Denouement. Exposition. Exposition (basic situation).

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Chapter 1: Notes on Plot

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  1. Chapter 1:Notes on Plot This will go on Page 5 in your notebook

  2. Plot • A series of related events, each event connected to the next, like links in a chain.

  3. Plot Diagram Climax Complications Resolution/ Denouement Exposition

  4. Exposition (basic situation) • Includes introduction of characters, setting • Introduces the first initial conflict

  5. Setting when and where action of story takes place

  6. Conflict • A struggle between two forces. • There are 2 types: 1. External conflict: takes place between two characters, between a character and a group, or between a character and an animal or a force in nature. 2. Internal conflict is a struggle that takes place within a character’s mind or heart.

  7. Complications • The problems that come up during the story as the characters try to resolve, or deal with, the conflict.

  8. Climax • The most exciting part of a story—the moment when the outcome of the conflict is determined. • The climax usually occurs near the end of a short story.

  9. Resolution (aka. Denouement) • When the problems are resolved • The story ends

  10. Sequence • The order in which the story’s events take place. • Most stories take place in chronological order, or time order.

  11. Flashback • A scene that interrupts the story to introduce an event that took place in the past.

  12. Flash-forward • A scene that jumps ahead of the story to narrate an event that happens in the future.

  13. Foreshadowing • Hints in the story that certain events are going to happen later.

  14. Atmosphere • Feelings the story brings through setting

  15. Now…take out a piece of paper Write about a movie or book you have seen or read and do the following: 1. underline the basic situation 2. circle a complication of the story 3. draw a box around the climax of the story 4. put a star next to the resolution

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