UNIT 1 NOTES

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UNIT 1 NOTES

• Plot, Time, and Setting

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Section 1

• Plot

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What is plot?

• The series of related events that make a story is
  called plot
• Just like a chain is made of links, the events
  that make a story are the storys plot

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Plot Diagrams

• A Plot Diagram is a diagram that makes it easy to
  see how a story is organized
• It usually looks like this

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Climax
Falling Action
Rising Action
Resolution
Narrative Hook
Exposition
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Exposition

• Exposition is a storys beginning
• Establishes where a story happens and who is
  involved
• Once upon a time, in a land far away, there was
  a donkey
• When I was five, I used to hide under the stairs
  of my house

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Narrative Hook

• The Narrative Hook is a problem that appears in
  the story
• Without a hook, a story would be kind of lame.

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Rising Action

• Rising action is made up of all of the problems
  and conflicts the main character must face
• The narrative hook is simply the first one of
  these problems

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Climax

• The point at which the end of a story is set in
  stone (for better or for worse) is called the
  climax
• Usually, this happens when the main character
  experiences a major change in his or her life
• The climax is not necessarily the most
  action-packed or exciting part

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Falling Action

• Once a character has been changed, sometimes
  theres still stuff to do before a storys over
• Any action that occurs after the climax is called
  falling action

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Resolution

• The end of the story is called the resolution
• Also called denouement (day-new-mahn)
• Some stories leave this off, in which case the
  resolution is implied

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Section 2

• Time

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Chronology

• Chronology is the study of measuring time
• To put events in Chronological Order is to place
  them in the order in which they happen
• YES Baby, kid, teen, adult, corpse
• NO Corpse, baby, teen, kid, adult

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Time Words

• Flashback-the events of a story are interrupted
  in order to show something that happened in the
  past
• Flash-forward-the events of a story are
  interrupted to show the future

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Time Words, continued

• Foreshadowing occurs when the author gives hints
  or clues about what will happen later in a story
• Can create suspense, allow the reader to brace
  him/herself for what comes next
• Want some pizza? asked John.
• Um, I guess so, said Linda.
• Little did Linda know those would be the last
  words shed ever say.

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Section 3

• Setting

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Setting

• Setting gives us 3 things
• The place in which a story happens
• The time in which a story happens
• The mood of a story

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Setting continued

• Setting is important all throughout a story
• In the exposition, it helps establish important
  information quickly
• As the story progresses, setting can create
  conflict and show changes in a character

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Mood

• Mood is the emotional response a reader
  experiences from reading
• Scary, Happy, Cozy, Tense
• Think of it like the music that plays in a film
  to give us clues to feel happy, sad, anxious, etc

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Unit 1 Review
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Plot Review

• Plot has six parts
• Exposition
• Narrative Hook
• Rising Action
• Climax
• Falling Action
• Resolution

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Plot Review

• Plot can be expressed as a diagram

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Chronology Review

• When things are in Chronological Order, they are
• listed in the same sequence in which they happen
• A Flashback is
• leaving the present to learn past events
• A Flash-forward is
• leaving the present to learn future events
• Foreshadowing is
• hints or clues about what will happen later in a
  story

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Setting Review

• A storys setting should reveal 3 things
• The place in which a story happens
• The time in which a story happens
• The atmosphere or mood of a story