Characters and how we get to know them:
1. Through the author's physical description of them
2. Their actions
3. Their words
4. Their inner thoughts
5. Through what other characters say and think about them
Plot - A pattern of events that develops from the interactions between characters.
A plot is a pattern of events in a cause and effect relationship.
1. Cause - Things that make something happen.
2. Effect - What happens because something was done.
Conflicts - The problems the characters encounter. Their conflicts can be:
1. External - conflict with others and with nature
2. Internal - conflict within themselves
Setting - Time and place of the story
Theme - The meaning behind the events and the characters' actions.
Narrative - The Point of View and Verbal tense of the narrator. How much the narrator intrudes into the story.
Style of Writing - Rhetorical devices, word choice, and sentence structure.
Plot Outline:
1. Exposition: the background or introductory information that the reader must have in order to understand the story.
2. Rising Action - all of the events that take place leading up to the climax.
3. Climax - The turning point. Here the story is turned in a different direction, toward the conclusion, which is the wrapping up of the story.
4. Falling Action - The immediate reaction to the climax.
5. Denouement - The conclusion of the plot. Loose ends are tied up.
1. Through the author's physical description of them
2. Their actions
3. Their words
4. Their inner thoughts
5. Through what other characters say and think about them
Plot - A pattern of events that develops from the interactions between characters.
A plot is a pattern of events in a cause and effect relationship.
1. Cause - Things that make something happen.
2. Effect - What happens because something was done.
Conflicts - The problems the characters encounter. Their conflicts can be:
1. External - conflict with others and with nature
2. Internal - conflict within themselves
Setting - Time and place of the story
Theme - The meaning behind the events and the characters' actions.
Narrative - The Point of View and Verbal tense of the narrator. How much the narrator intrudes into the story.
Style of Writing - Rhetorical devices, word choice, and sentence structure.
Plot Outline:
1. Exposition: the background or introductory information that the reader must have in order to understand the story.
2. Rising Action - all of the events that take place leading up to the climax.
3. Climax - The turning point. Here the story is turned in a different direction, toward the conclusion, which is the wrapping up of the story.
4. Falling Action - The immediate reaction to the climax.
5. Denouement - The conclusion of the plot. Loose ends are tied up.
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