Plot Structure and Literary Elements

What is a literary plot?

• A piece of land where you plant stuff.

• A classroom where readers are grown

• The structure or organization of events that create a fictional text

• When one person is out to get another person

The plot element where the author ties up all of the loose ends

• Climax

• Expostion

• Falling Action

• Resolution

Which plot element does the author introduce the characters?

• Exposition

• Climax

• Resolution

• Conflict

What happens during the rising action?

• Character tries to resolve the problem, but fails

• Character begins their journey upward

• The conflict takes place

• The resolution

Place the labels in the correct box in the Plot Diagram

a

b

c

d

e

Falling Action

Rising Action

Exposition

Climax

Resolution

Correctly label the plot diagram

e

a

d

c

b

Rising Action

Exposition

Falling Action

Climax

Resolution

Match the following

• Box 2

• climax

• Box 1

• exposition

• Box 3

• rising action

• Box 4

• falling action

• Box 5

• resolution

Match the following

• Leads to the resolution.

• Climax

• The main part of the story.

• Exposition

• Exciting or intense part of the story.

• Falling Action

• The time and place of a story.

• Setting

• Where the setting, characters, and basic

• Rising Action

Label the plot diagram

a

b

c

d

e

rising action

resolution

climax

exposition

falling action

The sequence of events in a story or novel is called the (a)   .

• plot

• action

• conflict 

• setting