Plot & Setting Flashcards
What is a plot?
Consists of several basic events that form a whole narrative.
What is a narrative?
A story
What is an exposition?
Important background information about the characters, the setting, and the situation at the beginning of the narrative.
What is a rising action?
After an inciting incident or significant event, the conflict becomes more clear, and the main character begins to experience complications.
What is a climax?
The point at which the story’s suspense, emotions, and tensions peak.
What is suspense?
A literary device that uses tension to make the plot more exciting.
What is comedy?
Usually used to refer to a dramatic work that has a light, amusing plot, features a happy ending, centers around ordinary people, and is written and performed in the vernacular.
What is a tragedy?
A serious dramatic work in which the protagonist experiences a series of unfortunate reversals due to some character trait.
What is a falling action?
Details the effects of what happens at the climax of a narrative, and the conflict comes to a point of resolution.
What is denouement?
Readers learn how conflict has reached a resolution and a sense of balance will be restored.
What is resolution?
The working out of a plot’s conflicts, following the climax.
What is in medias res?
A narrative starts midway through the story.
What is a flashback?
A narrator explains what had happened prior to the story’s beginning.
What is foreshadowing?
Hints at events to come.
What is setting?
Creates expectations in readers’ minds of the characters contained in them.
