1. Freytag’s Pyramid Climax Falling Action Rising Action Resolution
Plot thickens
Resolution
Exposition
Inciting Incident

2. Exposition Characters are introduced Setting is described Mood is set
Main Character: Harry Potter
Minor Characters:
Ron Weasley
Hermione Granger
Setting: (Time) Current During the school year, (Place) Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry
Mood: Magical, Mysterious, Suspenseful, Fantastical

3. Examples of other types of Inciting Incidents
The precise moment when something in the main character's life changes dramatically, and sets the rest of the story in motion. The event is life- changing, and without the event, the story wouldn't happen.
Harry Potter gets the letter from Hogwarts telling him that he is a wizard and he is to come to Hogwarts for the new school year. This changes Harry’s life and without this event the story wouldn’t happen.
Examples of other types of Inciting Incidents
Someone dies
Something is won or lost
Something is important is discovered

4. Rising Action
Plot gets more complex Characters struggle to find solutions to the conflict Suspense builds
4. Harry Potter and friends come up with their own plan to save the stone and set it into motion.
3. Harry Potter and friends rush to tell Dumbledore that Hagrid has accidentally given away the secret and the stone is in danger, only to find that Dumbledore himself has been lured away—leaving the stone vulnerable to Snape.
2. Harry discovers that the mysterious package from Gringott’s is now at Hogwarts.
1. Harry leaves his home on the Hogwarts Express to start his new life.

5. Climax
Highest point of action in the story Outcome of the conflict is decided Usually a change in the protagonist will occur
Harry Potter’s confrontation with Professor Quirrell
who is being controlled by Lord Voldemort.

6. Falling Action
the part of a story that comes immediately after the climax and before the conclusion.
Harry discovers that his mother’s love is what protected him from Voldemort.
Dumbledore destroys the sorcerer’s stone.

7. Gryffindor wins the house cup.
Resolution
Loose ends are tied up Story ends
Gryffindor wins the house cup.
Harry returns to the Dursley’s for the summer.