Plot

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Plot Action
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What is Action?

• Action is all the stuff that happens in a story
• It can be big things (like a volcano erupting)
  small things (like a girl winking at a boy)

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What is Plot?

• Plot is the structure of a story.
• It is all the actions of the story and the order
  that they are told in.

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Plot Components
Climax the turning point, the most intense
moment this is the most exciting or stressful
part of the story
Rising Action the series of conflicts and crises
in the story that lead to the climax
Falling Action all of the action which follows
the climax
Exposition the start of the story, the
situation before the action starts we meet the
characters and find out the setting
Resolution the conclusion, the tying together of
all of the threads
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Example Plot of the Story The Dog of Pompei by
Louis Untermeyer
Climax The volcano erupts, burning people, and
covering them in ash. Bimbo tries to chase Tito
to the sea gate. Tito faints.
Rising Action Tension begins to build when we
realize that a volcano is starting to erupt and
Bimbo is trying to lead Tito to safety, but Tito
is very tired and hungry and thirsty, so he cant
walk quickly. Bimbo tries to get bread for Tito.
Falling Action Tito wakes up and he is safe from
the volcano, but he is very sad because Bimbo
didnt make it out.
Exposition We meet the characters (a blind boy
called Tito and his dog Bimbo) and find out the
setting (the streets of Pompeii, Italy, in
ancient Rome)
Resolution 1800 years later, scientists dig up
the fossil of a dog holding some bread.
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Conflict

• Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two
  forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no
  plot.

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Types of Conflict