Plot and Setting

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

Short story or novel, Consists of several basic events.

Question 2

Narrative

Answer 2

A short Story.

Question 3

Conflict

Answer 3

The tension, opposition, or struggle that drives the plot.

Question 4

Exposition

Answer 4

At the beginning of the narrative, we learn important background information about the characters.

Question 5

Rising Action

Answer 5

After an inciting incident or significant event.

Question 6

Climax

Answer 6

The point where the stories suspense, emotions, and tensions peak is the climax.

Question 7

Falling action

Answer 7

Opposite the causes behind the rising action, the falling action details the effects of what happens at the climax.

Question 8

Denouement

Answer 8

Often the shortest part of the plot.

Question 9

Flashbacks

Answer 9

The narrator explains what happened prior to the story’s beginning.

Question 10

Foreshadowing

Answer 10

Hints everyone as what is to come in the novel.

Question 11

Suspense

Answer 11

A literary device that uses tension to make the plot more exciting

Question 12

Tragedy

Answer 12

A serious dramatic work in which the protagonist experiences a series of unfortunate events.

Question 13

Comedy

Answer 13

Adding humiliation to the story to drive the plot.

Question 14

Resolution

Answer 14

The working out of a plots conflicts, following the climax

Question 15

In Medias Res

Answer 15

Latin for “in the middle of things”