Plot and setting Flashcards
What’s the plot?
a short story or novel that consists of several basic events that from a narrative.
Whats narrative?
The story teller.
Whats conflicts?
An issue in the story.
Exposition?
Background information of the characters in the story before it starts.
Rising action?
When he a significant event happens and the conflict becomes more clear in the story.
Climax?
The peak of the story’s emotions and conflict.
Falling action?
The details and conflicts and comes to the to a point of resolution.
Denouement?
Mean untying the knot readers learn how the conflict is resolved.
In medias res?
In the middle of an action
Flashbacks?
Which a narrator explains what had happened prior to the story’s begging.
Foreshadowing?
Hinting at events to come.
Setting?
Where the story takes place.