1. PLOT NOTES

2. Setting
The time AND place in which the events in a short story, novel or play occur.
The setting often helps create the atmosphere or mood of the story/event.

3. Plot
What happens in a story, including the problem or conflict faced by one or more characters and how the problem or conflict is resolved

4. Plot
Exposition is the beginning of the story where characters are introduced, setting is established and we learn of the main conflict
Exposition

5. Inciting Conflict: begins the Rising
Plot
Inciting Conflict: begins the Rising
Action. This is usually the main struggle that one or more characters experience. The main conflict centers around the protagonist
Inciting Conflict
Exposition

6. Plot Internal Conflict External Conflict Person vs. self
Conflict: (occurs in the Rising Action) A struggle that one or more characters experience
Internal Conflict
External Conflict
Person vs. self
Person vs. person
Person vs. society
Person vs. nature

7. Plot
Rising Action: Refers to the events in a story that move the plot forward. Rising action involves conflicts and complications and usually builds toward a climax, or turning point
Rising Action
Inciting Conflict
Exposition

8. Plot
Climax -In a story, the climax, or turning point, is the point when the main character comes face to face with the conflict that will cause the character to change in some way – NOT ALWAYS THE MOST EXCITING PART
Climax
Rising Action
Inciting Conflict
Exposition

9. Plot
Falling Action: In the plot of the story, the falling action occurs after the climax. During the falling action, smaller conflicts are resolved and any loose ends are tied up
Falling Action
Rising Action
Climax
Exposition
Inciting Conflict

10. Denouement/Resolution
(occurs at the end of the falling action) The outcome of a story where all conflicts have been resolved and the story ends (the “they lived happily ever after”)
Falling Action
Rising Action
Climax
Exposition
Denouement/Resolution
Inciting Conflict