Plot + Setting Flashcards
Exposition
At the beginning of the narrative
Rising Action
After an inciting incident or significant event, the conflict becomes more clear, and the main character starts to experience complications
Climax
The point at which the story’s suspense, emotions, and tensions peak
Comedy
The protagonist’s situation often improves.
Tragedy
an event causing great suffering, destruction, and distress, such as a serious accident, crime, or natural catastrophe.
Comedy
The protagonist’s situation often improves
Falling Action
Opposite the causes behind the rising action
Denouncement
“untying the knot” Readers learn how conflict has reached a resolution
in medias res
“in the middle of action” or just prior to an important event midway through the overall story
flashback
a narrator explains what had happened prior to the story’s begging
foreshadowing
hinting at events to come
plot
a short story or novel consists of several basic events that form a whole narrative
narrative
a spoken or written account of connected events; a story.
