Plot Elements

What is plot structure?

• Background information

• Sequence of events in a story

• Conversation between characters

• The lesson or message in a story

Climax is...

• The turning point of the story that the rising action has been building too.

• The “villain” or “bad guy” of the story.

• The end of the story where we find out what happened to the characters when the conflict is resolved.

• Beginning of the story line where the world is built and the characters and setting are introduced.

Exposition is the...

• The end of the story where we find out what happened to the characters when the conflict is resolved.

• Where the conflict is introduced and the story and rising action begin.

• The turning point of the story that the rising action has been building too.

• Beginning of the story line where the world is built and the characters and setting are introduced.

Read the passage. Which plot element is in RED.

The wolf was frustrated that he couldn't blow down the house of the third pig, she he tried instead to get the pig by climbing through the chimney. Surprise! He fell right into a pot of water that the little pig had on for supper. "Yum!" said the little pig. The pig invited his two brothers over. They ate a delicious wolf stew for dinner and all lived happily ever after.

• climax

• introduction

• resolution

• rising action

What is the falling action?

• The end of the story where we find out what happened to the characters when the conflict is resolved.

• The events that take place after the climax.

• Beginning of the story line where the world is built and the characters and setting are introduced.

• The moral or lesson learned from the story.

What is the resolution?

• Where the conflict is introduced and the story and rising action begin.

• The moral or lesson learned from the story.

• The end of the story where we find out what happened to the characters when the conflict is resolved.

• The ongoing issue that the main character is dealing with.

Rising Action is...

• The main character or “good guy” of the story.

• Beginning of the story line where the world is built and the characters and setting are introduced.

• Where the story starts to get interesting and many of the main events happen. 

• The turning point of the story that the rising action has been building too.

Name the main character in the story Those Shoes?

• Jeremy

• Bob

• Antonio

• Henry

Read the passage. Which plot element is shown in blue?

It was dark and a little eerie by the campfire where Jonas and his friends were huddled. They were telling ghost stories, and each boy tried to make his story scarier than the last. Jonas looked around to see if his dad was anywhere nearby. Suddenly, they heard a loud crack and rustling in the nearby woods. "What's that?" whispered Jonas to the boy next to him. He didn't want to admit it, but he was downright scared now. His heart was racing. He could see a large shadowy figure approaching, holding something that looked like a knife. "Thought you might want to toast some marshmallows," said Jonas's father as he stepped into the light of the fire. He held up a bag of marshmallows in one hand and metal skewers--not a knife--in the other. Jonas and his friends breathed sighs of relief. His father taught the group a secret trick for making toasted marshmallows, and they each ate about fifteen.

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

• rising action

The theme of a story is...

• the conflict

• the lesson or message

• the time and place of the story

• the turning point