Plot and Setting

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

The arrangement of events in a Narrative. Almost always a conflict in central to a plot, and traditionally a plot develops in accordance with the following model: expositions, rising actions, climax, falling actions, denouement. There can be more than one sequence of events in a work, although typically there is one major sequences are called subplots.

Question 2

Narrative

Answer 2

A story

Question 3

Conflicts

Answer 3

The tension, opposition, or struggle that drives a plot. External conflict is the opposition or tension between 2 characters or forces. Internal conflict occurs within a character. Conflict usually arises between the protagonist and the antagonist in a story

Question 4

Exposition

Question 5

Rising Action

Answer 5

The rising action of a story is the section of the plot leading up to the climax, in which the tension stemming from the story’s central conflict grows through successive plot developments

Question 6

Climax

Answer 6

The point in a story when the conflict reaches its highest intensity.

Question 7

Suspense

Answer 7

A literary device that uses tension to make the plot more exciting; it is the effect created by artful delays and selective dissemination of information.

Question 8

Comedy

Answer 8

Usually used to refer to a dramatic work that, in contrast to tragedy, has a light, amusing plot, features a happy ending, centers around ordinary people, and is written and performed in the vernacular.

Question 9

Tragedy

Answer 9

A serious dramatic work in which the protagonist experiences a series of unfortunate revered to a tragic flaw. The most common tragic flaw is hubris.

Question 10

Falling Actions

Answer 10

Falling action is everything that takes place immediately after the climax. The purpose of falling action is to bring the story from climax to a resolution. It is one of the key elements in any story which will usually include an exposition, rising action, climax, falling action and denouement.

Question 11

Denouement

Answer 11

the final part of a play, movie, or narrative in which the strands of the plot are drawn together and matters are explained or resolved.

Question 12

Resolution

Answer 12

The working out of a plots conflict following the climax

Question 13

In Medias Res

Answer 13

the practice of beginning an epic or other narrative by plunging into a crucial situation that is part of a related chain of events; the situation is an extension of previous events and will be developed in later action

Question 14

Flashbacks

Answer 14

A scene in a narrative that is set in an earlier time than the main action.

Question 15

Foreshadowing

Answer 15

A plot device in which future events are hinted at.

Question 16

Setting

Answer 16

Where and when the story takes place.