Plot Maps

What is plot?

• the rising action

• the events that make up a story

What is exposition?

• falling action

• the introduction to a story

What are characters?

• the feeling of tension or excitement that makes you curious about future events

• the people or animals the story is about

What is the rising action?

• the events that develop and intensify the conflict

• the background of a story

The climax of the story is _____.

• the resolution or ending to the story

• the story's most exciting part and the turning point

The falling action is _____.

• what eases the tension and events unfold because of the climax

• the beginning of the story

The resolution of a story is _____.

• where characters talk to each other.

• when the problem is solved.

The protagonist is _____.

• the story's most exciting part and the turning point

• the main character of the story

The setting is _____.

• the time and the place of a story

• the conflict in a story

Tells the setting, or time and place

• climax

• exposition

• resolution or denouement

• rising action