PLOT STRUCTURE
The plot is the series of events and actions that occur in a story.
INQUIRY QUESTION:
* What happens in the story? What is time “line” of the narrative? (Flashback, linear, forshadowing)
* Does the pace of the plot change? How does it affect the reader?
INQUIRY QUESTION:
* What happens in the story? What is time “line” of the narrative? (Flashback, linear, forshadowing)
* Does the pace of the plot change? How does it affect the reader?
The structure of the plot is the method or sequence in which incidents in a narrative are organized or presented to the readers.
Exposition provides the background story of the characters and setting at the beginning of the story.
Complication the action that fuels the rising action and may incite later events.
TYPES OF COMPLICATIONS
1. Man versus Man: the individual versus another individual
2. Human versus Nature: the individual versus the physical world
3. Human versus Society: the individual versus the civilization or “order”
4. Human versus Herself/Himself: the individual versus the self (human nature)
Rising Action how readers learn details that continues toward the climax of the story
Climax the moment in the story where a crisis reaches its highest intensity and its potential resolution the turning point
Dénouement “unknotting”of the problem or falling action
Resolution type of conclusion/ending
VARIOUS RESOLUTIONS
1. Happy ending – everything ends well and all is resolved.
2. Tragic or Unhappy ending
3. Open-ended/Lack of resolution
Exposition provides the background story of the characters and setting at the beginning of the story.
Complication the action that fuels the rising action and may incite later events.
TYPES OF COMPLICATIONS
1. Man versus Man: the individual versus another individual
2. Human versus Nature: the individual versus the physical world
3. Human versus Society: the individual versus the civilization or “order”
4. Human versus Herself/Himself: the individual versus the self (human nature)
Rising Action how readers learn details that continues toward the climax of the story
Climax the moment in the story where a crisis reaches its highest intensity and its potential resolution the turning point
Dénouement “unknotting”of the problem or falling action
Resolution type of conclusion/ending
VARIOUS RESOLUTIONS
1. Happy ending – everything ends well and all is resolved.
2. Tragic or Unhappy ending
3. Open-ended/Lack of resolution
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Narrative Events May Be Told In Different Order
Chronological/linear (natural order).
In media res: in the middle of things
Flashback: sets the story with events that occurred at an earlier time; this technique is used to complement the events in the “present” of the story.
Foreshadowing: a literary device in which the outcome of an event is hinted at.
Sub-plots:A story within a story. Sub-plots are the little events in the background that often make the main plot more interesting by giving the reader more to think about.
TASK: Reorder the sequence to the story below
Chronological/linear (natural order).
In media res: in the middle of things
Flashback: sets the story with events that occurred at an earlier time; this technique is used to complement the events in the “present” of the story.
Foreshadowing: a literary device in which the outcome of an event is hinted at.
Sub-plots:A story within a story. Sub-plots are the little events in the background that often make the main plot more interesting by giving the reader more to think about.
TASK: Reorder the sequence to the story below