Elements of Fiction

-Setting

-Characters

-Plot is the series of events in the story. Usually, it centers itself around a conflict. (A conflict is a a struggle between different forces. It fuels the action, moving the plot forward.)

Types of Conflict

Plot, Conflict and Setting

Objective: Identify the stages of plot and analyze its development.

Activity

Write a nursery rhyme ex. Jack and Jill

Jack and Jill went up the hill,

to fetch a pail of water

Jack fell down and broke his crown 

and Jill came tumbling after.

Identify the different parts of plot

Exposition "Jack and Jill went up the hill" you get to know the characters and the setting.

Rising Action they are going up the hill to fetch a pail of water.

Climax Jack fell down

Falling Action "And broke his crown" consequence of the climax.

Resolution "and Jill came tumbling after"

Humpty Dumpty

The Three Little Pigs

Videos

Flocabulary - five Things (Elements of a Short Story)

Links

The Elements of Fiction