plot and setting

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

The arrangement of events in a narrative. Almost always, a conflict is central to a plot, and traditionally a plot develops in accordance with the following model: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, denouement.

Question 2

Narrative

Answer 2

short story or novel consists of several basic events.

Question 3

Conflicts

Answer 3

The tension, opposition, or struggle that drives plot. External conflicts is the opposition or tension between two characters or forces.

Question 4

Exposition

Answer 4

At the beginning of the narrative, we learn important background information about the characters, the setting, and the situation, and we may began to understand the nature of the conflict.

Question 5

Rising Action

Answer 5

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

Question 6

Climax

Answer 6

The point at which the story’s suspense, emotions, and tensions peak is the climax. This critical turning point marks when everything changes. In a comedy, the protagonist’s situation often improves. In a tragedy, it usually worsens.

Question 7

Suspense

Answer 7

A literary device that uses tension to make a plot more exciting; it is the effect created by artful delays and selective dissemination of information.

Question 8

Comedy

Answer 8

Usually used to refer to a dramatic work that, in contrast to tragedy, has a light, amusing plot, features a happy ending, centers around ordinary people, and is written and preformed in the vernacular.

Question 9

Tragedy

Answer 9

A serious dramatic work in which the protagonist experiences a series of unfortunate reversals due to some character trait, referred to as a tragic flaw. The most common tragic flaw is hubris. Hubris comes from the Greek word hybris, which means pride.

Question 10

Falling Action

Answer 10

In a plot diagram, this is the result (or fallout) of the climax or turning point. In this phase, the conflict is being resolved.

Question 11

Denouement

Answer 11

In this phase of a plot, the conflict has been resolved and balanced is restored to the world of the story.

Question 12

Resolution

Answer 12

The working out of a plot’s conflicts, following the climax.

Question 13

In media res

Answer 13

A technique in which a narrative begins in the middle of the action.

Question 14

Flashback

Answer 14

A scene in a narrative that is set in an earlier time than the main section.

Question 15

Foreshadowing

Answer 15

A plot device in which future events are hinted at.

Question 16

Setting

Answer 16

Where and when the story takes place.