Plot and Setting Flashcards
Plot
Events that form a narrative
Exposition
Important background info at the beginning of a narrative
Rising Action
The conflict becomes more clear and complications form
Climax
Suspense, emotions, tensions become an all time high
Comedy Climax
Situation often Improves
Tragedy Climax
Situation usually worsens
Narrative
Short story
Conflicts
The problems in a story
Suspense
State of being excited or anxious
Comedy
Story intended to make audience laugh
Tragedy
Suffering, Destruction, and Distress
Falling Action
Conflict comes to a point of resolution
Denouement
Conflict reaches resolution
Resolution
Act of finding the answer or solution
In medias res
In the middle of the narrative
Flashbacks
Part in story set in time earlier than the main story
Foreshadowing
Hinting at something in the future of the story
Coming-of-age story or Bildungsroman
A story in which involves maturing or realization
Epiphany
A sudden moment of realization
Setting
Place or surroundings in which the story takes place