Plot Flashcards
- 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.
Plot
ELEMENTS OF PLOT
refers to what catches a reader’s interest or attention through the presentation of problems in the
story.
Narative Hook
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.
Introduction/Exposition
ELEMENTS OF PLOT
deals with the series of conflicts or crises in the story that lead to the climax.
. Rising Action
ELEMENTS OF PLOT
is the turning point in the story.
Climax
ELEMENTS OF PLOT
takes place after the climax. It includes events that will help to fully resolve the conflict.
Falling Action
ELEMENTS OF PLOT
is where the falling action is concluded through the revelation or suggestion of the outcome
of the conflict or crisis.
Denouement/Resolution
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.
Flash-forward
Interruptions to chronological sequence:
refers to glimpse provided about the past.
Flashback
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.
Foreshadowing
an American writer, is considered the
master of using flashback and flash-forward in his literary piece titled, “A Rose for Emily”.
William Faulkner
means “in the middle of things” or “in the middle of the action”.
o This starts in the middle of the action without exposition
In medias res
refers to a simple linear causality chain
Fabula
is a nonlinear presentation of events.
Syuzet (Sue’jet)
refers to certain unexpected contradictions.
Irony
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.
Verbal irony
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.
Situational Irony
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.
Dramatic Irony
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.
Deus ex machina
