PLOT + SETTING Flashcards
What is plot?
The plot of a story or novel consists of several basic events that form a whole narrative.
Exposition
At the beginning of the narrative
Rising Action
After an inciting incident or significant event.
Climax
The point at which the story’s suspense, emotions, and tensions peak.
Comedy
The protagonist’s situation often improves.
Falling Action
Opposite the causes behind the rising action.
Narrative
A plot in which the author places the main narrative of his or hers work within another narrative
conflicts
The tension, opposition, or struggle that drives a plot.
Denouement
“untying the knot” in French, and this part of the story is often the shortest.
Suspense
A literacy device that uses tension to make the plot more exciting.
Tragedy
A serious dramatic work in which the protagonist experience a series of unfortunate reversals due to some character trait, refereed to as a tragic flaw.
Resolution
The working out of a plot’s conflicts, following the climax.
In Medias Res
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 then the main action.
Foreshadowing
A plot device in which future events are hinted at.
