Plot Elements

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Exposition

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Beginning of the story line where the world is built and the characters and setting are introduced.

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Rising Action is...

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Where the story starts to get interesting and many of the main events happen.

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Climax

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The turning point of the story that the rising action has been building too.

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Falling Action

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The events that take place after the climax.

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Resolution

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The end of the story where we find out what happened to the characters when the conflict is resolved.

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Conflict in a story

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The ongoing issue that the main character is dealing with.

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plot

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a sequence of events in a story

Front

What graphic organizer best represents a story's plot? Options: a Venn diagram, a T chart, a bubble map, a mountain

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a mountain

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What are characters?

Back

the people or animals in a story

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What is the setting?

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the time and place of events