Plot and Setting

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

The plot of a story or novel consists of several basic events that form a whole narrative.

Question 2

Narrative

Answer 2

A story

Question 3

Exposition

Answer 3

At the beginning of a narrative, we learn important background info about the characters, the setting, and the situation.

Question 4

Rising Action

Answer 4

Conflict becomes more clear and the main characters starts to experience complications.

Question 5

Climax

Answer 5

The point of tension, suspense, and emotions peak.

Question 6

Suspense

Answer 6

A state or feeling of excited or anxious uncertainty.

Question 7

Comedy

Answer 7

Humorous ; funny

Question 8

Conflicts

Answer 8

The problem that carries the main character in the story

Question 9

Falling action

Answer 9

Details the affects of what happens at the climax; when the conflict gets resolved.

Question 10

Denouement

Answer 10

Aftermath of the conflict and the very end of the story.

Question 11

In medias res

Answer 11

“in the middle of the action”

Question 12

Flashbacks

Answer 12

A point where the character or audience is brought back into a later point of time in a story or film.

Question 13

Foreshadowing

Answer 13

Hinting at events to come.

Question 14

Setting

Answer 14

Where the story takes place; where the characters are for the duration of the story