Plot n Setting Flashcards
Plot
Several Basic events that form a whole narrative
Narrative
A story
Exposition
At the beginning of the narrative, we learn important background info about the characters, the setting, and the situation, and we may begin to understand the nature of the conflict.
Rising Action
After an inciting incident or significant event, the conflict becomes more clear, and the main character start to experience complication.
Conflict
Problems
Climax
The point at which the storys suspense, emotions, and tensions peak. The crucial turning point is when everything changes. Usually the narrative builds to this point, and any events following the climax happen fairly quickly.
Suspense
A literacy device that uses tensions to make the plot more exiting it is the effect, it is the effect created by artful delays and selective dissemination of info.
Comedy
Usually used to refer to a dramatic work that, in contrast to tragedy, has a light, amusing plot, features a happy ending, centers around ordinarily people, and is written and preformed in the vernacular.
Tragedy
A serious dramatic work in which the protagonist experiences a series of unfortunate reversals due to some character trait.
Falling Action
In a plot diagram, this is the result of the climax or turning point. In this phase, the conflict is being resolved.
Denouement
The conflict has been resolved and balance is restored to the world of the story.
Resolution
The working out of a plots conflicts, following the climax.
In medias res
“in the middle things” a technique in which a narrative begins in the middle of the action.
Flashbacks
A scene in a narrative that is set in an earlier time than the main action.
Foreshadowing
A plot device in which future events are hinted at.
