Plot

Question 1

Exposition

Answer 1

Characters are introduced
Setting is revealed
Mood or tone is established

Question 2

Rising Action

Answer 2

Complications

Question 3

Conflict

Answer 3

Drives the plot
5 types of Conflict:
-person versus person
-person versus society
-person versus nature
-person versus self
-person versus technology

Question 4

Climax

Answer 4

Turning point

Question 5

Falling action

Answer 5

Events that follow the climax

Results of the main characters action or decision

Question 6

Resolution

Answer 6

The conflict is solved

Question 7

Chronological order

Answer 7

In the order they happened

Question 8

Flashback

Answer 8

Stops what’s happening & looks at the past

Question 9

Foreshadowing

Answer 9

Clue about what’s going to happen

Question 10

Idiom

Answer 10

An expression that can’t be understood from the meanings of its separate words but 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