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What is Plot?

What is Plot?. Plot is the series of events in a story where the main conflict (problem) in the story is resolved. Pyramid Plot Structure. The most basic and traditional form of plot is pyramid-shaped. This is called “Freytag’s Pyramid.”. Plot Components.

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What is Plot?

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  1. What is Plot? Plot is the series of events in a story where the main conflict (problem) in the story is resolved.

  2. Pyramid Plot Structure The most basic and traditional form of plot is pyramid-shaped. This is called “Freytag’s Pyramid.”

  3. Plot Components Climax: the turning point of the story– most suspenseful part. Problem will be forced into either a positive or negative direction. 4 Rising Action: the series of events in which the problem intensifies (usually the longest part of the story) Falling Action:shows the result of the climax, and its effects on the characters. Conflict begins to resolve itself. The reader knows what “happened next.” 5 3 Inciting Event: The event in the story that begins the conflict 6 2 1 Resolution: the conflict is solved and all loose ends are tied up Exposition: Reader is introduced to the characters and setting. . . No conflict yet.

  4. Plot of Cinderella Exposition: Cinderella lives unhappily with her stepmother and two stepsisters. She is pretty much their servant. Inciting Event: An invitation to the Palace ball arrives. Rising Action: The stepsisters prepare to go to the ball; Cinderella hopes to go, but stepmom gets in the way; a fairy godmother appears and sends Cinderella, too. She dances with the prince until midnight and runs away, losing her slipper. The prince finds the slipper and vows to marry the woman whom it fits. Climax: The prince visits the home of Cinderella. Stepsisters try on the shoe. . . Will Cinderella get her chance?? Falling Action: She does! The shoe fits! Resolution: Cinderella and the prince live happily ever after.

  5. Conflict Conflict is the problem in the story. Without conflict, there is no plot because the plot is the characters trying to solve the problem.

  6. Character vs Character Character vs Nature Character vs Society Character vs Self Types of Conflict

  7. Types of Conflicts • Character vs. Self— the main character has a problem within him/herself, also called “internal conflict.” An example of this would be a character trying to decide what’s right or wrong, like in the movie Aladdin, when Aladdin has to decide whether or not to tell Princess Jasmine the truth about himself. • Character vs. Character— the main character has a problem with another character. Superhero stories are very good examples of Character vs. Character. • Character vs. Society— the main character or main group of characters has a problem with the main group in charge, like in Uglies by Scott Westerfeld or City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau. • Character vs. Nature— the main character has a problem with nature. Survival stories like Hatchet by Gary Paulsen are examples.

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