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Plot Structure

Plot Structure. Climax/Turning Point The most intense point in the action; the reader senses the problem is about to be solved; often, a character “turns” or changes in attitude or opinion. Rising Action 3. Rising Action 2. Falling Action

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Plot Structure

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  1. Plot Structure

  2. Climax/Turning Point The most intense point in the action; the reader senses the problem is about to be solved; often, a character “turns” or changes in attitude or opinion Rising Action 3 Rising Action 2 Falling Action The actions that follow the climax and slow the story down, leading to the resolution Rising Action 1 Resolution/Outcome The final conclusion; reveals what happens to the characters after overcoming obstacles and reaching goals Complications that keep the character from easily solving the initiating conflict Initiating Conflict The central problem that the main characters attempt to solve from the beginning to the end of the story Exposition Characters: People who face conflict in a story Setting: The time and place where the action is happening Basic Situation: The event taking place at the beginning

  3. Chronological order Flashback—the author interrupts the sequence of events to relate to an event from an earlier time that is relevant to understanding the present In media res (in the middle of things) when the story starts in the middle of the action without exposition Types of Linear Plots Plots can be told in

  4. Conflict Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no plot.

  5. Person vs Society Person vs Self Types of Conflict A character struggles with an outside force. Person vs Person External Person vs. Nature Internal A character struggles with a personal decision, fear, stress, or confusion

  6. Person vs. PersonExternal Conflict Tension comes through the conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist. • Years after Voldemort has killed young Harry Potter’s parents, the evil villain continues to pursue and torment the adolescent hero. Even though Harry fears the antagonist, he stands up to him and proves to be a worthy opponent. (Harry Potter by JK Rowling) • After Cassie gets tired of Lillie Jean’s prejudicial attitudes, she stages a setup in the forest, and proceeds to knock some sense into her. (Roll of Thunder by Mildred Taylor)

  7. Protagonist: One who faces the primary conflict in a story • Synonym: main/leading character • From Greek Word Roots • Proto: Chief/Main • Agony: Painful Struggle • Antagonist: One who represents obstacles a protagonist must overcome; often a Villain, but may be a force of nature, set of circumstances, an animal, or other force that is in conflict with the protagonist • From Greek Word Roots • Anti: Against • Agony : Painful Struggle

  8. Person vs. SocietyExternal Conflict Tension comes from the main character’s struggles against the beliefs, ideals, customs, or other societal values held by a larger group or community. • The German soldiers close the Jewish Shops and begin deporting Jews to concentration camps. (Number the Stars by Lois Lowry) • Homes of black members of the community are set on fire by “Night Riders” as a method of intimidation and a reminder of their “place”. (Roll of Thunder by Mildred Taylor)

  9. Person vs. NatureExternal Conflict Tension comes from the character’s battle against strong forces of nature. Nature plays the role of antagonist in this case. Brian is stranded alone in the wilderness after the pilot of the small plane in which he is traveling dies of a heart attack in mid-flight, causing the plane to crash. He must face the harsh elements and the regional wildlife with only a hatchet and a little background knowledge. (Hatchet by Gary Paulsen)

  10. Internal Conflict Person vs. Self Tension is created as the protagonist faces internal pressures. The hero has two or more courses of action and must decide which course to take. • When Jesse Tuck gives Winnie Foster the bottle of water from the eternal spring, she must decide between being young forever or growing up and old and experiencing life with all its joys and trials. (Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt) • Days after the bus tire blowout, Cassie makes herself sick worrying about the “Night Riders” finding out that she and the Logan children are responsible for digging the hole that caused the incident. (Roll of Thunder)

  11. Apply Plot Elements to “Jack and the Beanstalk” story Analyze the Plot of a Short Story (“”Thank You, Ma’m”) http://www.glencoe.com/sec/literature/course/course1/unit/shortstory.shtml## http://www.readwritethink.org/materials/plot-diagram/

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