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Literary Analysis: Story Elements

Literary Analysis: Story Elements. Analyzing a Story. Parts of the Plot. Exposition: introduction of the setting, characters, and basic situation, usually found in the first few paragraphs Conflict: the story’s central problem

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Literary Analysis: Story Elements

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  1. Literary Analysis: Story Elements Analyzing a Story

  2. Parts of the Plot • Exposition: introduction of the setting, characters, and basic situation, usually found in the first few paragraphs • Conflict: the story’s central problem • Rising Action: events that increase the tension (excitement) in the story and lead up to the climax

  3. Parts of the Plot (cont.) • Climax: high point of the story, when the story’s outcome (ending) becomes clear • Falling Action: events that follow the climax • Resolution: the final outcome of the story, or how it ends; this is when the main conflict or conflicts are resolved

  4. Also important is the … • Theme-life lesson taught by the story; how does it apply to YOU?

  5. Remember . . . • Rising Action events are BEFORE the climax • Falling Action events are AFTER the climax • CLIMAX is the point when the reader knows what the outcome of the story will be

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