Plot Flashcards

(13 cards)

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Exposition

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Characters are introduced.
Setting is revealed.
Mood or tone is established.

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Rising action

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Complication.

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Conflict

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What drives the plot.
There are five types of conflicts.
Person versus person.
Prison versus society.
Person versus nature.
Person versus self.
Prison versus technology.
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4
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Climax

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Climax is the turning point.

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5
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Falling action

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Events that follows the climax.

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Resolution

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The conflict is already solve.

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7
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Chronological order

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In the order that they happen.

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Flash back

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Stops what is happening and looks at the past.

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9
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Foreshadowing

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Clues that is what is going to happen.

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10
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Metaphor

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

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Idiom

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A expression that can’t be understood from the meaning of its separate word but must be learned as a whole.

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12
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Simile

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

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Analogy

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A comparison of two things that are alike in a way but otherwise quite different.

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