PLOT

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PLOT THE SERIES OF EVENTS THAT MAKE A STORY

• Exposition:the background info, explains the status quo
• Rising action:starts with a problem,gets more exciting
• Climax:a crisis must solve the problem, most exciting
• Falling action:story calms down, finds new status quo
• Resolution:new normal is reached, all questions are anwered

Example of a plot structure
The three little pigs
Exposition:
Rising action:
Climax:
Falling action:
Resolution:

CONFLICT

TYPES OF CONFLICT

• Person vs person
• Person vs nature
• Person vs society
• Person vs self

PVP

• One or more individuals battling
• Against another person or group
• Example: batman vs penguin

PERSON VS NATURE

• An individual or group battles
• The forces of nature
• Example: passengers vs iceberg

PVS

• An individual battles an organized
• Group such as government
• Example: katniss vs president snow
• Tip: individuals represent the government
• Look for uniforms

PVSELF

• An individual
• Example: dieting
• Look for reason vs emotion or instinct

CHARACTER

5 WAYS TO LEARN ABOUT A CHARACTER

• What they do
• What they say
• What they look like
• What is said about them
• What the author tells us

INFERENCES

• Make clues (evidence)

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POINT OF VIEW

WHOS TELLING THE STORY

• First person:someone is telling a
• Story about themself
• Look for narrator using pronouns
• I,me,my,mine,we,us,our,ours

WHOS TELLING THE STORY

• Second person: someone is
• Telling a story about their audience to
• Their audience
• Pronouns:you,your,yours
• Second person isnt used very often

WHOS TELLING THE STORY

• Third person: someone telling a story
• About a third person to an audience
• Pronouns: she,her,him,he,it,they,them,etc
• This ones used alot!

HOW MUCH DOES THE NARRATOR KNOW

• Narrators:1st,2nd,or 3rd persons
• Come in 2 varieties:
• Omniscient and limited omniscient

OMNISCIENT NARRATOR

• The omniscient narrator knows EVERYTHING
• About a story: what characters are thinking
• What has happened before and what will
• Happen next

LIMITED OMNISCIENT NARRATOR

• This narrator knows somethings,
• But does not know everything
• Perhaps they do not know some character's
• Thoughts

SETTING

DEFINITION

• The description of where and when events take place
• Is much more than a date and location
• The difference between a story in nepal, today and...

MOOD

DEFINITION

• The emotional response a story gives a reader.
• Driven immediately by the setting, affected by plot and character.
• Whats the mood of the picture from nepal.

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SYMBOL

SYMBOL

• And object or person or event represents
• An idea
• Simple example:
• Red octagons = stop

FREEDOM

THEME

THEME

• A statement about life or
• Being human that the text gives
• A reader

EXAMPLES

• Harry Potter : friendship, perseverance
• Star Wars: good and evil
• Ransom of red chief: expectations

DON'T CONFUSE WITH

• The "moral" of the story
• A lesson to be learned