ELA 6th Week 4: Plot and Structure

the sequence of events in a literary work

• plot

• rising action

• inciting incident

• story structure

A struggle between opposing forces

• conflict

• climax

• resolution

• inciting incident

Events leading up to the climax

• rising action

• plot

• exposition

• milieu

Background information presented in a literary work

• exposition

• milieu

• rising action

• story structure

the parts of a story after the climax and before the very end

• falling action

• resolution

• exposition

• plot

the turning point of the story

• climax

• inciting incident

• exposition

• falling action

End of the story where loose ends are tied up

• resolution

• falling action

• milieu

• climax

event that introduces the central conflict

• inciting incident

• exposition

• rising action

• story structure

the way the character, setting and plot are organized

• story structure

• plot

• exposition

• climax

environment; setting

• milieu

• exposition

• conflict

• story structure