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8 Cards in this Set
- Front
- Back
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Exposition
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Introduces the setting and characters.
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Narrative Hook
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An incident that piques the reader's interest, creates curiosity and the desire to read on to see what will happen.
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Rising action
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A sequence of several events and intensifies and builds the story's central action
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Climax
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The most intense moment of the plot, the moment where the confict boils over.
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Falling Action
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The after-effects or results of the climax. How the characters in the story react to or deal with the transformation generated by the conflict.
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Resolution
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May occur and be stated after the falling action, or may be implied. In either case, this part of the plot is usually directly related to the conflict, as it solves, lessens, or brings closure to the conflict threaded through the story.
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Conclusion/Denouement
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The tying up of loose ends. A story with a number of characters and subplots will have this plot part, because there will be events and characters about whom readers will have questions.
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Theme
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The implied message of the writer. Readers infer meaning from the text and by looking agt the story as a whole, may see that the separate inferences support an overall argument about human nature that the reader understands the writer to be making.
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