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Literature - PLOT
Question | Answer |
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What is a plot? | The sequence of events in the order as they are presented in the text. |
What must good plots be able to do? | Create suspense. Awaken the reader's interest. Hold the reader's attention. |
Put these words in the order they normally appear in a story: denouement, climax, exposition, falling and rising action | exposition - rising action - climax - falling action - denouement |
What three things of a story will normally be introduced in the exposition? | The background, the setting and the characters. |
What is the moment called when events are reversed and then move into another direction? | Turning point. |
What part of the plot structure is the turning point closely connected to? | The climax. |
What is another word for denouement? | Resolution. |
What happens in the denouement? | The conflict is resolved. |
What does 'chronological' mean? | That the story develops from start to finish. |
Foreshadowing, what does that mean? | It is used to describe a scene in a story where the readers are given hints about what might happen later in the story. |
What are flashbacks? | They are scenes where the readers are given details about something that happened earlier in the story. |