1. Plot, Structure and Characters
All About Stories
Plot, Structure and Characters

2. Plot Plot is the events and actions that take place within a story.
Plot is the literary element that describes the structure of a story. A plot diagram is an organizational tool, which is used to map the significant events in a story. By placing the most significant events from a story on the plot diagram, you can visualize the key features of the story.
Plot is the events and actions that take place within a story.
Plot has 3 distinct parts – the beginning, middle and end

3. Types of Plots Plots can be told in Chronological order Flashback
In addition, you can note that some stories follow a circular or episodic plot, and hypertextual stories can be different every time they’re read, as the reader chooses the direction that the story takes. If a story that students are working on does not fit into the triangle structure, think about why the author would choose a different story structure and how the structure has changed.
In media res (in the middle of things) when the story starts in the middle of the action without exposition

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

5. Types of Conflict Extenal Conflict Human vs Human Human vs Nature
Human vs Society
Human vs Self
Internal Conflict

6. Main Characters
The main or central character of the story is called the “protagonist”
The character or force which opposes the protagonist is called the “antagonist”
The antagonist may be human, or something else

7. The End…. Or is it?