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Plot Simply Put, Plot Is What Happens in The Story. Some Call It Storyline

The document discusses the key elements of plot, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. It provides descriptions of each element and how they contribute to the overall storyline and sequence of events in a story.

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Plot Simply Put, Plot Is What Happens in The Story. Some Call It Storyline

The document discusses the key elements of plot, including exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and denouement. It provides descriptions of each element and how they contribute to the overall storyline and sequence of events in a story.

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PLOT

Simply put, plot is


what happens in the
story. Some call it
storyline.
The overall
storyline and
sequence of
events.
PLOT – pertains to the
arrangement of events
in a story governed by
the cause and effect
relationship. It is the
design or motif of the
story of how it will
progress or a narration
of what happens in the
past. It is hereby
necessary to have
conflict or problem,
otherwise, without it,
there is no story worth
reading.
When doing an Elements
of fiction hand, describe
the plot in ten word or less
without revealing the
plot’s climax or resolution.
ELEMENTS OF PLOT/
PLOTLINE
Exposition –introduces
the characters, setting
and basic situation.
Is the beginning information
given by the writer in the story.
It provides the background
knowledge so readers may
understand the story like the
characters and setting.
Rising Action –
presents the central
conflict,
complications,
suspense and crisis.
It mirrors the essential inner
conflict that will wrestle to a
complication and then head
start to another conflict. In
short, it is the complication of
the plot.
Climax-the point
of greatest
tension.
The highest level of the
storyline since it represents the
turning point that marks a
change of the main character.
This is where the main part of
the story takes place.
Falling Action –subsiding
intensity. The reversal of
the story that depicts the
moment of final suspense.
Denouement/
Aftermath –the
resolution which ties
up loose ends and
concludes the action.
The time when the falling action and
the concluding scene of the narrative
takes place. Since conflicts are
resolved, there is balance among the
characters as the readers undergo a
cathartic effect – the release of
tension and anxiety (Freytag’s
Pyramid, 2011)
The Fryetag’s Pyramid
conceptualized by Gustav
Freytag in 1863 used to picture
what happens in the telling of
the tale. It involves exposition,
rising action, climax, falling
action, and denouement.

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