Plot Elements

The series of events that happen in a story. When a story develops in a linear way

• plot

• rising action

• conclusion

• exposition

Introduces the main characters, the setting, and sometimes the conflict

• simile

• rising action

• climax

• exposition

increases tension and builds the conflict

• suspense

• rising action

• falling action

• theme

the point of greatest interest, or the turning point in the story where the conflict begins to be resolved

• rising action

• falling action

• climax

• plot twist

shows the result of the climax and brings the story to a close

• climax

• resolution

• flashback

• falling action

reveals the final outcome of the conflict and ties up loose ends

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

• flashback