Plot & Setting Flashcards
Plot
The plot consists of several basic events that form the narrative
Setting
Where and when a story takes place
Narrative
Story
Conflict
The tension, opposition, or struggle that drives the plot/usually arises between the protagonist and antagonist
Exposition
The beginning of the story when we learn about the background info about characters, the setting, the situation, and the nature of the conflict
Rising Action
After a significant event the conflict becomes more clear, the main character experiences complications
Climax
The point in a story when the suspense, emotions, and tensions peak/ the turning point in a story/ in comedy protagonist situation improves, in tragedy it worsens
Suspense
Uses tension to make the plot more exciting
Comedy
makes the plot funny, amusing, features a happy ending, and has a light
Tragedy
Serious, dramatic, the protagonist experiences a series of unfortunate events due to a character trait
Falling Action
Opposite of the rising action, details the effects of what happened during the climax, and the conflict comes to a resolution
Denouement
How the conflict reached a resolution “untying the knot”
Resolution
The working out of a plot’s conflicts, following the climax
media res
“in the middle of an action” or just prior to an important event midway through the story/ the narrator begins in the middle of an action
Flashbacks
A scene in the story that is set in an earlier time then the main action
