Plot Vocabulary

events that take place in the story

• plot

• climax

• exposition

• falling action

main problem that a character or group of characters has to solve

• conflict

• climax

• falling action

• rising action

events that build tension, interest, or suspense

• rising action

• falling action

• resolution

• climax

point of highest interest

• climax

• exposition

• rising action

• falling action

final outcome of the story’s conflict

• resolution

• falling action

• climax

• exposition

background information about the setting, characters, and past events

• exposition

• climax

• conflict

• resolution

the series of conflicts or struggles that build a story toward a climax.

• Plot

• Rising Action

• Conflict

• Falling Action

Events that occur after the climax leading to the resolution

• Falling Action

• Plot

• Setting

• Conflict

an event that occurred BEFORE the story / a memory

• Character

• Scene

• Flashback

• Setting

The time and the place in which the story occurs.

• Conflict

• Climax

• Resolution

• Setting