Quick Plot Check

WHERE and WHEN the story takes place

• exposition

• resolution

• setting

• conflict

a SERIES of RELATED events that make up a story

• plot

• rising action

• setting

• falling action

the author's LESSON or MESSAGE about life

• irony

• theme

• denouement

• foreshadowing

the PROBLEM or STRUGGLE in a story

• conflict

• rising action

• theme

• plot

the story is winding down

• falling action

• climax

• resolution

• rising action

the beginning of the story; sets the stage for the story, main characters are introduced, the setting is described, and the conflict is hinted at

• resolution

• plot

• climax

• exposition

the story ENDS and the main conflict is resolved

• conflict

• plot

• resolution

• exposition

the complications the protagonist faces with the building suspense leads to the climax

• exposition

• rising action

• conflict

• point of view