Plot Vocabulary

The most exciting moment in the story. The HIGHEST point of drama- where the story takes a turn

• Conflict

• Plot

• Climax

• Rising Action

A character in conflict with the main character

• Flash back

• Main Character

• Antagonist

• Protagonist

A character in a story or play who challenges the protagonist in some way.

• narrator

• antagonist

• protagonist

• character development

Phaethon.  He's coming to see you.  But he has lost his way and lies exhausted at the edge of the wood.  The wolves will surely eat him.  Do you care? What plot structure element is this?

• Exposition

• Climax

• Conflict

• Rising Action

Zeus looked upon earth.  He saw the runaway horses of the sun and the hurtling chariot, this is the...

• rising action

• climax

• falling action

• resolution

Long ago, when the world was very new, two boys were racing along the edge of a cliff that hung over a deep blue sea.  Name the plot structure element.

• Conflict

• Climax

• Rising Action

• Exposition

The _____ _____ develops the context and may introduce a subplot.

The _____ is the peak of all action and drama and it may include a plot twist.

The _____ _____ is the immediate response to the climax.

Which plot stage will introduce the subplot?

• Rising Action

• Climax

• Falling Action

• Resolution