plot + setting

Question 1

plot

Answer 1

several basic events that form a whole narrative.

Question 2

conflicts

Answer 2

the tension, opposition, or struggle that drives a plot.

Question 3

Exposition

Answer 3

Important background information about the characters, the setting, and the situation.

Question 4

Rising Action

Answer 4

After an inciting incident, the conflict becomes more clear, and the main character starts to experience complications.

Question 5

Climax

Answer 5

the story’s suspense, emotions, and tensions peak.

Question 6

Suspense

Answer 6

uses tension to make the plot more exciting.

Question 7

comedy

Answer 7

has a light, amusing plot, features a happy ending.

Question 8

tragedy

Answer 8

a series of dramatic work in which the protagonist experiences a series of unfortunate reversals due to some character trait.

Question 9

narrative

Answer 9

a story

Question 10

falling action

Answer 10

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

Question 12

resolution

Answer 12

the working out of a plot’s conflicts, following the climax.

Question 13

in medias res

Answer 13

in the middle of the action

Question 14

flashbacks

Answer 14

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

Question 15

foreshadowing

Answer 15

hint at events to come.

Question 16

setting

Answer 16

creates expectations in readers’ minds of the characters contained in them.