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Page 1: Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories Plot is a causal arrangement of events and actions within a story

Teaching Plot Structure Through Short Stories

Plot is a causal arrangement of events and actions within a story.

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Types of Plot

Plots can be told in:• Chronological order

• Flashback

• In media res (in the middle of things) when the story starts in the middle of the action without exposition

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Pyramidal Plot

• The most basic and traditional form of plot:

• Based on Gustav Freytag’s Plot Structure & Aritotle’s Elements of the Greek Tragedy

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Plot Line

Exposition: The start of the story. The way things are before the action starts.

Rising Action: the series of conflicts and crisis in the story that lead to the climax.

Climax: The turning point. The most intense moment (either mentally or in action.

Falling Action: all of the action which follows the Climax.

Resolution: The conclusion, the tying together of all of the threads.

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Conflict

Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two forces in a story. Without conflict there is no plot.

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Types of Conflict

Man VS Man

•Man VS Nature

•Man VS Society

•Man VS Himself

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Practice With Jack And The Beanstalk

• With a partner go to the Jack and the Beanstalk interactive and drag the parts of the story into the right plot element.

• Share your results with the rest of the class.