Plot

Question 1

Exposition

Answer 1

Characters are introduced, setting revealed, mood or tone is established

Question 2

Rising action

Answer 2

Main character tries to solve a problem and encounters obstacles along the way resulting in a conflict

Question 3

Conflict

Answer 3

Drives the plot, 
5 types of conflicts:
Person vs. person
Person vs. society
Person vs. nature
Person vs. self
Person vs. technology

Question 4

Climax

Answer 4

Turning point in the story

Question 5

Falling action

Answer 5

Results of the main character’s action or decision

Question 6

Resolution

Answer 6

The conflict is solved or ended

Question 7

Chronological order

Answer 7

In the order that they happened

Question 8

Flashback

Answer 8

Stops whats happening and looks at the past

Question 9

Foreshadowing

Answer 9

Clues about what is going to happen

Question 10

Idiom

Answer 10

An expression tat can’t be understood from the meanings of its separate words nut must be learned as a whole.

Question 11

Metaphor

Answer 11

A figure of speech in which one thing is spoken or written of as if it were another.

Question 12

Simile

Answer 12

A figure of speech that uses “like” or “as” to make a comparison.

Question 13

Analogy

Answer 13

A comparison of two things that are alike in some ways but otherwise quite different.