1. Plot Structure

2. What is plot?
The main structure of events in a novel, play, film, and other works.
It creates the story!

3. Plot Map

4. Exposition
Part of the story that sets up background information. It introduces…
-setting
-characters
-previous events/what leads to conflict

5. Rising Action
A series of conflicts that lead to the climax.

6. Climax
The turning point of the story. The point of greatest action.

7. Falling Action
Events that take place after the climax.

8. Resolution
End of the story. The conflict is solved.