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Plot and Conflict
What makes a great story? Unit 1 Notes
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Warm UpYou and your group members are stranded on a deserted island.
•You only have the items written on your group’s notecard with you to survive and escape.
•Work with your group to write a short tale describing the events that occurred on your island.
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PlotNarrative is a fancy
word for storyPlot = the series of
events in a narrative
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Conflict
Conflict is at the heart of any good story.
Conflict is a struggle between opposing forces.
Two types of conflict:
internal conflict = a struggle within the character’s mind
external conflict = a clash between a character and an outside force, such as another character, society, or a force of nature
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Specific Internal/External
ConflictsInternal Conflict Types
External Conflict Types
character vs. himself: a struggle between opposing needs, desires, and emotions within the character
character vs. character: two characters struggle against each other (verbally, physically, etc.)
character vs. society: a character struggling against society’s pressures (the expectations of a group, cultural traditions, social rules, etc.)
character vs. nature: a character struggling against forces of nature (storm, flood, drought, bitter cold, etc.)
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Famous Stories and their conflicts
Famous text:
conflict : internal or external
• What type?
why? :
Famous text:
conflict: internal or external
• What type?
why?:
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Plot Structure
Exposition: introduces setting, characters, and conflict
Rising Action: builds suspense; presents complications that intensify the conflict
Climax: the turning point; moment of greatest suspense; makes outcome of conflict clear
Falling Action: eases the suspense, reveals the outcome of the climax, shows the resolution of the conflict
Resolution: reveals the final outcome, ties up loose ends
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Narrative Structure Mountain
• Which goes where???
• Falling action
• Exposition
• Resolution
• Rising action
• Climax
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Sequence and Time
Most stories follow chronological order (events follow a linear structure meaning they follow in the order they happened)
However, sometimes author’s chose to play with the order of events:
Flashback: an account of a conversation, episode, or event that happened before the beginning of the story, or at an earlier point
Foreshadowing: a writers use of hints or clues in early scenes to suggest events that will occur later
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Flashback is... An image or memory clue to help me remember flashback:
What does flashback do in a story?
Strategies to recognize flashback:
Flashback
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Flashback is...• an account that
occurred at an earlier time
An image or memory clue to help me
remember flashback:
What does flashback do in a story? •interrupts the main action to describe something that happened earlier• shows how past events led to the present• gives background info
Strategies to recognize flashback: •Look for possible word clues such as “that summer” or “as a young boy” or “her earliest memory”•Keep track of chronological order to recognize flashback
Flashback
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Foreshadowing is... An image or memory clue to help me remember foreshadowing...
What does foreshadowing do in a story?
Strategies to recognize foreshadowing:
Foreshadowing
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Foreshadowing is...
• use of hints to suggest what will
happen later
An image or memory clue to help me remember foreshadowing...
What does foreshadowing
do in a story? •prepares the reader for
events that will happen
later•creates suspense•makes you want to keep
reading
Strategies to recognize
foreshadowing:
• notice repeated ideas
and descriptions
•notice characters acting
unusually or strangely
Foreshadowing