Plot and Setting Flashcards
1
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plot
A
Several basic events
2
Q
Narrative
A
order of events throughout the story
3
Q
Conflicts
A
Tension, opposition, or struggle that drives a plot
4
Q
Exposition
A
Beginning of narrative learn important background info
5
Q
Rising Action
A
Beginning of complications
5
Q
Climax
A
Point of suspense, emotions, and tensions peak
6
Q
Suspense
A
literacy device that uses tension to make a plot more exciting
7
Q
comedy
A
Protagonist’s situation improves
8
Q
tragedy
A
serious dramatic work
9
Q
Falling action
A
opposite the causes behind the rising action
10
Q
Denouement
A
untying the knot
11
Q
in medias res
A
in the middle of action
12
Q
flashbacks
A
prior events to the beginning
13
Q
foreshadowing
A
hint to events to come
14
Q
setting
A
the surroundings in the story
