Name ______________________________ Date _______________ Period _____
Understanding Plot
Plot is _the arrangement of the events of a story and related in a cause and effect relationship______________________________________________________________
The driving force to a plot is conflict started by the inciting incident_______________.
Five types are:
Plot--For each section of the plot pyramid, fully list the parts of the story that belong there.
Crisis / Turning Point
Rising Action / Complications Falling Action / Complications
Climax
Resolution
Exposition
Conflict / Inciting Incident
Man vs. _________________
Question: ____________________________________
edit.
Understanding Plot
Plot is _the arrangement of the events of a story and related in a cause and effect relationship______________________________________________________________
The driving force to a plot is conflict started by the inciting incident_______________.
Five types are:
- Man vs. __man________________________
- Man vs. __nature______________________
- Man vs. __self________________________
- Man vs. __society_____________________
- Man vs. _fate /destiny / God_____________
- Exposition: sets up the story, telling the characters, the setting, and the conflict
- Rising action / complications: those things that get in the way of solving the conflict
- Crisis: _the turning point in the conflict______________________________
- Falling action / complications: _occurs because of the crisis__________________
- Climax: __the point of greatest tension or emotional intensity.________________
- Resolution: _the culmination or end of the story___________________________
Plot--For each section of the plot pyramid, fully list the parts of the story that belong there.
Crisis / Turning Point
Rising Action / Complications Falling Action / Complications
Climax
Resolution
Exposition
Conflict / Inciting Incident
Man vs. _________________
Question: ____________________________________
edit.
