Plot

Question 1

• The arrangement of events to develop an author’s basic idea of a story.
• The logical series of events and character’s actions having a beginning, middle, and end.

Answer 1

Plot

Question 2

ELEMENTS OF PLOT

refers to what catches a reader’s interest or attention through the presentation of problems in the
story.

Answer 2

Narative Hook

Question 3

ELEMENTS OF PLOT

is the beginning of the story; this is also where the story’s character are introduced, setting is
revealed, and complication begins.

Answer 3

Introduction/Exposition

Question 4

ELEMENTS OF PLOT

deals with the series of conflicts or crises in the story that lead to the climax.

Answer 4

. Rising Action

Question 5

ELEMENTS OF PLOT

is the turning point in the story.

Answer 5

Climax

Question 6

ELEMENTS OF PLOT

takes place after the climax. It includes events that will help to fully resolve the conflict.

Answer 6

Falling Action

Question 7

ELEMENTS OF PLOT

is where the falling action is concluded through the revelation or suggestion of the outcome
of the conflict or crisis.

Answer 7

Denouement/Resolution

Question 8

Interruptions to chronological sequence:

refers to the technique of showing bits or glimpse of what is going to happen towards the end
of the story.

Answer 8

Flash-forward

Question 9

Interruptions to chronological sequence:

refers to glimpse provided about the past.

Answer 9

Flashback

Question 10

Interruptions to chronological sequence:

is mainly a technique to provide clues or hints as to some events or circumstances that may
come soon in the flow of the story.

Answer 10

Foreshadowing

Question 11

an American writer, is considered the
master of using flashback and flash-forward in his literary piece titled, “A Rose for Emily”.

Answer 11

William Faulkner

Question 12

means “in the middle of things” or “in the middle of the action”.
o This starts in the middle of the action without exposition

Answer 12

In medias res

Question 13

refers to a simple linear causality chain

Answer 13

Fabula

Question 14

is a nonlinear presentation of events.

Answer 14

Syuzet (Sue’jet)

Question 15

refers to certain unexpected contradictions.

Answer 15

Irony

Question 16

Types of Irony

refers to the contradiction between what a character says and what a character means.
Ex. I can’t wait to read the seven-hundred-page report.
Great, someone stained my new dress.

Answer 16

Verbal irony

Question 17

Types of Irony

involves a discrepancy between what is expected to happen and what actually happens.
Ex. Philippines, as an archipelago, has no fish to catch.
Farmers have no food to eat.

Answer 17

Situational Irony

Question 18

Types of Irony

this type of irony is popular in works of art such as movies, books, poems, and plays.
Ex. In a movie where a detective does not know that the criminal responsible for the crimes in the city is his
partner. The audience however is already aware of this fact and waits anxiously to know what will happen once
the character finds out what they already know.

Answer 18

Dramatic Irony

Question 19

means “god out of the machine” in Greek.
- An event or twist in the story which is completely illogical and is simply inserted to save the protagonist of the story from danger.

Answer 19

Deus ex machina