Plot and setting
- 2. ● A series of related events, like links in a chain ● Each event hooks our curiosity and pulls us forward to the next event Plot
- 3. ● External ○ Takes place between two characters, a character and a group or between a character and something nonhuman ● Internal ○ Within a character’s mind or heart ■ A desire to win someone’s friendship might conflict with a fear of rejection Conflict
- 4. ● Fuel of narrative ● The greater the conflict, the more we care about the outcome Conflict
- 5. 1. Basic situation or exposition ● opening when characters and conflict are introduced 2. Complication or Rising action ● Character takes some action to resolve the conflict but meets with more complications or problems The Bare Bones of Plot
- 6. 3. Climax ● key scene where emotional involvement is greatest; we learn the outcome 4. Resolution or denouncement ● End of story; all the struggles are over and we know what happens to the main characters The Bare Bones of Plot, Cont’d.
- 7. ● Plot is a story framed by time ● Most stories are told in chronological order, or the order in which events unfold in real time ○ Author can: ■ Slow down time to emphasize danger ■ Speed up time to skip events not relevant to the story or that don’t move it along It’s All The Timing
- 8. ● Flashback: Writer interrupts the flow of events to present information from the past ○ Also used to strengthen understanding of character by revealing a powerful memory ● Flashforward: Writer jumps ahead days or years into the future ● Foreshadowing: Writer brings future into the present with hints or clues that suggest what is to come Playing With Time