Plot + Setting

Question 1

Plot

Answer 1

a short story or novel consists of several basic events

Question 2

Narrative

Answer 2

novel

Question 3

Conflicts

Answer 3

things that must be resolved

Question 4

Exposition

Answer 4

beginning of the narrative, we learn important background information about the characters, the setting, and the situation, and we may begin 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.

Question 7

Suspense

Answer 7

Like more scary or thriliing

Question 8

Comedy

Answer 8

Funny

Question 9

Tragedy

Answer 9

sad,

Question 10

Falling Action

Answer 10

Opposite the causes behind the rising action details the effects of what happens at the climax of the narrative, and the conflict comes to a point of resolution

Question 11

denouement

Answer 11

“untying the knot” in French and this part of the plot is often the shortest. Traditionally, readers learn how conflict has reached a resolution, and in denouement

Question 12

Resolution

Answer 12

means readers still have questions about the meaning of a narratives events.

Question 13

in medias res

Answer 13

a Latin term meaning “in the middle of the action,” or just prior to an tile technique

Question 14

Flashbacks

Answer 14

During which a narrator explains what had happened prior to the story’s beginning

Question 15

Foreshadowing

Answer 15

explains what happens prior to the story’s beginning.