Plot Map Terms

All of the events in a story; often mapped out on a triangle called a plot map, plot diagram, or Freytag Pyramid

• Plot

• Characters

• Climax

• Rising Action

Who is involved in the story such as people, animals, objects, places, ideas.

• Plot
• Climax
• Falling Action
• Characters

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.W.5.3A

CCSS.W.5.9B

Part of the plot where the tension is the highest or where there is a change in the character or conflict. The main problem reaches it's peak

• Resolution

• Climax or Turning Point

• Characters

• Exposition

Part of the plot where the solution to the main conflict occurs

• Climax

• Resolution

• Falling Action

• Exposition

The problem within a story; it can be classified as man vs. self, man vs. man, man vs. nature, man vs. society, man vs. technology

• Exposition

• Falling Action

• Conflict

• Characters

Events that take place after the climax and prepare the story for its resolution

• Setting
• Exposition
• Falling Action
• Rising Action

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.5

Introduces the main characters, the setting, and the events that make the rest of the story possible

• Exposition
• Rising Action
• Plot
• Characters

Tags

CCSS.W.5.3A

Part of the plot before the climax where the story is built up with events or moments which create the conflict

• Plot

• Exposition

• Rising Action

• Falling Action

Time and place of the story

• Setting
• Characters
• Plot
• Conflict

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.W.5.9B

Word to describe a character that does not change

• Boring

• Dynamic

• Static

• Narrator