1. Plot, Setting, and Conflict
Mrs. Burhenn
English 10

2. Plot
is a literary term defined as the events that make up a story, particularly as they relate to one another in a pattern, in a sequence, through cause and effect, or by coincidence.

3. What is a plot chart?

4. Exposition
The exposition provides the background information needed to properly understand the story, such as the protagonist, the antagonist, the basic conflict, and the setting.
It ends with the inciting moment, which is the incident without which there would be no story. The inciting moment sets the remainder of the story in motion beginning with the second act, the rising action.

5. Rising Action
The events of a dramatic or narrative plot preceding the climax.
During rising action, the basic internal conflict is complicated by the introduction of related secondary conflicts, including various obstacles that frustrate the protagonist's attempt to reach his goal.
Secondary conflicts can include adversaries of lesser importance than the story’s antagonist, who may work with the antagonist or separately, by and for themselves or actions unknown, and also the conflict.

6. Climax
Or turning point, which marks a change, for the better or the worse, in the protagonist’s affairs.
If the story is a comedy, things will have gone badly for the protagonist up to this point; now, the tide, so to speak, will turn, and things will begin to go well for him or her.
If the story is a tragedy, the opposite state of affairs will ensue, with things going from good to bad for the protagonist.
Simply put, this is where the main part happens or the most dramatic part.

7. Falling Action
During the falling action, or resolution, which is the moment of reversal after the climax, the conflict between the protagonist and the antagonist unravels, with the protagonist winning or losing against the antagonist.
The falling action might contain a moment of final suspense, during which the final outcome of the conflict is in doubt.
Summary: The falling action is that part of the story in which the main part (the climax) has finished and you're heading to the conclusion

8. Denouement Serves as the conclusion of the story.
Conflicts are resolved, creating normality for the characters and a sense of catharsis, or release of tension and anxiety, for the reader.
The comedy ends with a conclusion in which the protagonist is better off than at the story's outset.
The tragedy ends with a catastrophe in which the protagonist is worse off than at the beginning of the narrative

9. Setting
includes the time, location, and everything in which a story takes place, and initiates the main backdrop and mood for a story.
Setting has been referred to as story world as beyond the immediate surroundings of the story.
Elements of setting may include culture, historical period, geography, and hour

10. Elements of setting
Geographical location, its topography, and physical arrangements, such as windows, furniture etc.
Occupation and daily manner of the living characters
Time or period, era, season
General environment, for example: religious, mental, moral, social and emotional conditions

11. Conflict Fight, battle, or war.
Competitive or opposing action of incompatibles: antagonistic state or action
Mental struggle resulting from incompatible or opposing needs, drives, wishes, or external or internal demands.
The opposition of persons or forces that gives rise to the dramatic action in a drama or fiction.

12. Types of conflict
-Man vs. Nature: a struggle between protagonist and outside forces such as land, animals, and weather
-Man vs. Man: a struggle between protagonist and another character, usually the antagonist
-Man vs. Society: a struggle between protagonist and societal law, rules, or beliefs
-Man vs. Self: an internal struggle between thoughts and ideas, within a person
-Man vs. Fate/Destiny: rarely used, unless the gods are in the story.