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Plot Structure

Plot Structure. Plot is the action or sequence of events in a story. Plot Components. Climax: the turning point, the most intense moment—either mentally or in action. Rising Action: the series of conflicts in the story that lead to the climax.

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Plot Structure

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  1. Plot Structure Plot is the action or sequence of events in a story.

  2. Plot Components Climax: the turning point, the most intense moment—either mentally or in action Rising Action: the series of conflicts in the story that lead to the climax Falling Action: all of the action which follows the climax Exposition: the start of the story, gives background information: situation, characters, setting, mood Resolution: the conclusion, the tying together of all of the threads

  3. Conflict Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot.

  4. External Conflict Internal Conflict The main character struggles with opposing ideas or feelings within his or her own mind • The main character struggles with another person or with an outside force

  5. Types of Conflict • Person vs Person • One character has a problem with one or more of the other characters

  6. Types of Conflict • Person vs Society • A character has a problem with some element of society: school, law, accepted way of doing things

  7. Types of Conflict • Person vs Self • A character has a problem deciding what to do in a certain situation

  8. Types of Conflict • Person vs Nature • A character has a problem with nature: heat, cold, tornado, avalanche, etc.

  9. Types of Conflict • Person vs Fate (God) • A character must battle what seems to be an uncontrollable problem. The conflict is an unbelievable or strange coincidence.

  10. Returning to an earlier time for the purpose of making something in the present more clear Flashback Foreshadowing • Giving hints or clues of what is to come later in a story

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