Plot, Setting, Character & Motive Review

1. The time and location in which a story takes place.

• Plot

• Setting

• Characterization

• Conflict

1. The sequence of events involving characters and conflict.

• Plot

• Setting

• Character

• Conflict

The most exciting part of the story.

• Setting

• Climax

• Exposition

• Rising Action

The opposition of forces, essential to the plot.

• Setting

• Character

• Conflict

• Climax

This is the beginning of the story. It often introduces the setting, character, and conflict.

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Denouement

• Exposition

This is the end of the central conflict of the story.

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

• Exposition

• Resolution

The name of the events leading up to the climax of a story.

• Falling action

• Exposition

• Inciting Incident

• Rising Action

Suspense and tension start to build during the

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Rising Action

• Resolution

Conflict is ...

• a struggle between two forces

• how the author arranges events to develop his basic idea

• the time and location in which a story takes place

• a person in a work of fiction

The ___________________ of the story affects how we feel.