Elements of Plot (Exposition - Conflict)

Elements of Plot

Tuesday, Oct 10

Today's Learning Targets

• I can identify the elements of plot from a short story.

• I can place events from a story correctly on a plot diagram.

Open Ended

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Setting:
-Time
-Place​

Social Conditions: the daily life of characters

Mood or Tone: feelings the setting helps create for the reader: happy, sad, scary, upbeat etc.

Imagery: Create pictures in the mind of the reader by appealing to the five senses.

​Point of View: the narrative voice that is telling the story, the perspective it is told from.

Multiple Choice

Which of the following is NOT one of the five main elements of plot?

• Exposition

• Climax

• Dialogue

• Rising Action

Multiple Choice

What is exposition?

• The introduction of setting, characters, and tone.

• The suspense that builds up to a climax.

• The point in the story where conflict is introduced.

• This is the turning point of the story.

Hotspot

Where is the exposition?

Multiple Choice

Read the following passage from Alice in Wonderland:

Once in the wood, she was anxious to get back to her right size again, and then to get into that lovely garden. But how? Peeping over a mushroom, she beheld a large blue caterpillar sitting on the top with its arms folded...

Which detail from the text provides a clue to the place where this passage takes place?

• “Once in the wood…"

• “A large blue caterpillar..”

• “...get back to her right size again...”

• “...with its arms folded”

Multiple Choice

Read the following passage:

As Maribelle hurried down the street, the wind swept the snow along the sidewalk and hid her footsteps, so that it looked as if no one had passed. Above her, the cold, silent skyscrapers of the city loomed. The whole block was eerily silent in the snowstorm, and she pulled her coat tightly around her. Maribelle had only moved here a few months before. She came because she wanted to be a singer. But right now, she was frightened.

Which detail from the passage indicate the setting?

• “Above her, the cold, silent skyscrapers of the city loomed.”

• “But right now, she was frightened.”

• “She came because she wanted to be a singer.”

Multiple Choice

The setting can affect a character's mood in a story.

• True

• False

Multiple Choice

Who opposes the protagonist or main character?

• antagonist

• supporting character

• mentor

• trickster

Multiple Choice

What is main character of a story called?

• supporting character

• protagonist

• antagonist

• point of view

Multiple Choice

What is the time and place where a story occurs called?

• tone

• inciting incident

• plot

• setting

Multiple Choice

What is the set up of the story that tells a little bit about the character, the setting, and conflict?

• introduction

• inciting incident

• exposition

• plot

Multiple Choice

Travis began the school year the same as always.  He never studied or completed his homework.  Each report card showed the same poor grades.  Although his parents encouraged him, by the end of the year, he was still doing poorly.

• round character
• static character
• antagonist
• dynamic character

Multiple Choice

Even though she loved to dance, Shannon was nervous about joining the dance team.  She tried out and made it, but never said a word to anyone.  At each dance practice, Shannon got a little more comfortable with her team.  By the end of the season, not only did she make friends, but she even taught the team a few dance moves.

• dynamic character
• flat character
• static character
• antagonist

Multiple Choice

A _________ character changes little to none throughout the story.

• round 
• static
• dynamic
• major

Multiple Choice

A character who undergoes an important inner change such as a change in personality, or attitude is __________________.

• static
• flat
• dynamic
• minor

Multiple Choice

Maggie was walking down the 8th grade hallway where everyone was pushing and shoving to get through to be the first ones to get Chick-Fil-A. She was so dissapointed when she got to the line and they had run out of the fries.

What type of conflict is this?

• Man vs Self

• Man vs Society

• Man vs Nature

Drag and Drop

The conflict is ​ ​ ​ ​

Placeholder

Drag these tiles and drop them in the correct blank above

Man vs Society

Man vs Self

Man vs. Nature

Multiple Choice

What is conflict?

• Two characters getting along.
• A struggle between two opposing forces.
• The climax in a story.
• Part of the resolution.

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict in the picture?

• Person vs Person
• Person vs Nature
• Person vs Machine
• Person vs Self

Multiple Choice

Elsa has to be hidden away from the outside world because of her secret magical powers.

• Person vs Person
• Person vs Nature
• Person vs Society
• Personr vs Self

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict in the picture?

• Person vs Person
• Person vs Nature
• Person vs Society
• Person vs Self

Multiple Choice

In "The Hunger Games," Katniss must survive in the arena by protecting herself from animals, searching for clean water, and surviving fires.

• Person vs Person
• Person vs Nature
• Person vs Society
• Person vs Self

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict in the picture?

• Person vs Person
• Person vs Nature
• Person vs Society
• Person vs Self

Multiple Choice

What is the conflict in the picture?

• Person vs Person
• Person vs Nature
• Person vs Society
• Person vs Self

Multiple Choice

Jeremiah wants to ask someone to the dance but he's too scared.

• Person vs Person
• Person vs Self
• Person vs Nature
• Person vs Society