We usually analyze and study stories by looking at:

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We usually analyze and study stories by looking
at

• The writer
• The literary devices used by the writer
• The characters
• The setting
• The plot structure
• The themes

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Plot Structure
Plot is the literary structure of a story. It
shows the connections between the events and
actions in a story.
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Types of Linear Plots

• Plots can be told in

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Pyramid Plot Structure

• The most basic and traditional form of plot is
  pyramid-shaped.
• This structure was described first by
  Aristotle and in more detail by Gustav Freytag.

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Aristotles Unified Plot
The basic pyramid-shaped plot structure was first
described by Aristotle in 350 BC. Aristotle
identified that each story has a beginning,
middle and end. He also said that these events
were connected through a chain of cause and
effect.
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Freytags Plot Structure
Freytag modified Aristotles plot structure by
adding rising actions that lead to the climax of
the story, and falling actions that lead to the
resolution after the climax.
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Modified Plot Structure
Freytags Pyramid is often extended slightly
before and after the main rising and falling
action. You might think of these as being the
warm-up and cool-down of the story.
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Plot Elements
Climax the most intense moment of CONFLICT in
the story
Rising Action the series of events in the story
that lead to the climax
Falling Action all of the events which follow
the climax
Exposition the start of the story the
introduction of the characters and the setting
before the action starts
Resolution the end of the story how the
characters accept the new situation
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Conflict

• Conflict is the dramatic struggle between two
  forces in a story. Without conflict, there is no
  plot.

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Types of Conflict