Plot Vocabulary

What is a plot?

• The resolution of the conflict

• The conflict in the story

• The most important characters in the story

• The conflict, important events, and resolution

Tags

CCSS.L.2.4E

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

What is a resolution?

• How the conflict is resolved or how the story ends

• Where and when the story takes place

• The most important event in the story

• What the story is mostly about

Tags

CCSS.L.3.4D

CCSS.L.6.4C

CCSS.L.7.4C

CCSS.L.8.4C

CCSS.L.9-10.4C

What does it mean to find the main conflict in a story?

• summarize the most important events

• the main idea of the story

• the most important conflict or the cause of all of the other conflicts

• how the problem or conflict is solved

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.W.5.2D

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

Which statement does not represent a plot?

• The structure and organization of a story

• The events in a story

• The beginning, middle, and end of a story

• The problems and struggles a character faces in a story.

Tags

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.6

CCSS.RI.5.4

CCSS.W.6.2D

CCSS.W.7.2D

What is the climax of a story? Where on the plot pyramid does it fall?

• The initiating event - at the beginning of the pyramid

• The most exciting part of the story - at the top of the pyramid

• The end of the story - at the end of the pyramid

• The twist in the story - When the magician pulls a rabbit out of their hat

Tags

9-10.RL.2.1

plot

• turning point of a story

• time and place of a story

• sequence of events in a story

• connects independent clauses

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The chain of events that make up a story

• Plot

• Conflict

• Theme

• Setting

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.3

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

The _____ of the story had many twists and turns.

• setting

• plot

• foreshadow

• point of View

Tags

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3

CCSS.RL.8.3

What is the "plot" of the story

• A literary device

• The ending of the story

• How the story unfolds

• A small detail of the story

Tags

9-10.RL.2.1

Plot

• a related series of events in the plot of a story that build toward the point of greatest interest.

• the events in a novel, movie, etc.

• a struggle or problem a character in a story must overcome.

• a message about life and human behavior that an author expresses in a text.

Tags

CCSS.RL.4.5

CCSS.RL.5.3

CCSS.RL.5.5

CCSS.RL.6.3

CCSS.RL.7.3