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Plot and Setting

Miss Michel’s Introduction to:. Plot and Setting. “What Happened?”. You often ask friends this question when you want to know what is going on. In a story, the answer to “What happened?” is the plot.

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Plot and Setting

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  1. Miss Michel’s Introduction to: Plot and Setting

  2. “What Happened?” • You often ask friends this question when you want to know what is going on. • In a story, the answer to “What happened?” is the plot. • Like a travel agent, a storyteller can help move us from where we are, putting us in another setting on earth or, for that matter, on another planet or on the moon. • Setting tells us where and when a story takes place.

  3. Plot The series of events in a story.

  4. Plot event #1 He is asleep.

  5. Plot Event #2 The alarm goes off.

  6. Plot Event #3 He oversleeps

  7. Plot Event #4 He has to hurry because he’s running late.

  8. Plot Event #5 The meeting goes on without him.

  9. Plot Event #6 He’s fired

  10. Plot Event #7 He goes crazy.

  11. Plot Event #8 He blows up his office buliding.

  12. Plot Event #9 He’s arrested and put in jail.

  13. Freytag’s Pyramid Most plots have a basic structure.

  14. EXPOSITION The exposition is the part of the story in which the basic situation is outlined and the characters and main conflict are introduced.

  15. INCITING INCIDENT The inciting Incident is when we are first introduced to the main conflict in the story.

  16. RISING ACTION The rising action is the chain of events that takes place as the main character struggles to achieve his or her goal.

  17. CLIMAX The climax is the point of highest emotional intensity; sometimes the point at which we learn the outcome of the conflict

  18. FALLING ACTION The falling action is all of the events after the climax.

  19. RESOLUTION The resolution is when the main problem or conflict is solved.

  20. DENOUEMENT The denouement ties up any loose ends that come at the end of the story.

  21. Types of Conflict Internal and External Conflict

  22. The struggle or clash between opposing characters, forces, or emotions is CONFLICT.

  23. Internal & External Conflict Internal Conflict External Conflict • An internal conflict is created when the main character undergoes an emotional struggle. • The conflict is within the character's own heart or mind. • An external conflict is created when a person or outside force prevents the main character from achieving his or her goal. • For example, a secret agent or blizzard might threaten a person’s life.

  24. Internal or External Conflict? ”With violent effort, he tore loose. He knew where he was now. Death Swamp and its quicksand.” from “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell

  25. Three More Terms to Learn: Flashback, Foreshadowing, and Suspense

  26. Flashback Sometimes a story’s main action is interrupted in order to tell of events that took place in the past. Any scene that presents events that happened before the main frame of a story is called flashback. Through the use of flashback, storytellers provide background about the main events of the story or share the character’s past.

  27. Flashback Example: “The last station sped behind her. The overhead light went out, and the fluorescent flashes from the subway tunnel gleamed in the darkness behind her eyelids, pane after pane like frames of a movie. Mrs. Chen, then just a girl named Lai Fong, was in China again.” from “Disguises” by Jean Fong Kwok

  28. Foreshadowing • A story character is unaware of wolves howling in the distance, but the reader wonders about them. • Later, that character is pursued by those wolves and the reader realizes that the howling foreshadowed the character’s now-desperate situation

  29. FORESHADOWING • FORESHADOWING is the use of clues to hint at what is going to happen later in the story. • Example: “The old charts call it Ship-Trap Island,” Whitney replied. “A suggestive name, isn’t it? Sailors have a curious dread of this place.” from “Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell

  30. Suspense When your heart races and you become anxious about what might happen next in a story, it’s because the writer has created suspense. * Suspense is the feeling of uncertainty or anxiety about what is going to happen next.

  31. Suspense Example: Writers create suspense by hinting at what may happen. “George Bergeron correctly identified the earthquake, and well he might have—for many was the time his own home had danced to the same crashing tune. “My God—” said George, “that must be Harrison!” from “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut

  32. JOURNAL #1: Use the photograph you choose to write a narrative (a story) that follows Freytag’s Pyramid and has one of the following devices: flashback, foreshadowing, or suspense. Label the parts of your journal entry!

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