Plot and Setting Flashcards

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Plot

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The story

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Exposition

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We learn important background information about the characters the setting and the situation

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Rising Action

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After an inciting or significant event the conflict becomes more clear and the main character starts to experience complications

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Climax

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The point at which the storys suspense, emotions nd tensions peak is the climax

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Comedy

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The protaganist situation often improves

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Falling Action

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Opposite the causes behind the rising action, the falling action details the effects of what happens at the climax of the narrative, and the conflict comes to a point of resolution

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Denouement

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untying the knot the plot is often the shortest

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resolution

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readers still have questions about the meaning of a narratives events

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In medias res

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in the middle of the action

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flashbacks

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during which a narrator explains what had happened prior to the story’s begging

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Foreshadowing

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To hint at events to come

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