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Page 1: Plot Subplots Parallel Episodes

Plot Subplots Parallel Episodes

Feature Menu

Setting as Background

Setting as ConflictSetting: Mood

Your Turn

What Are Plot and Setting?

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Plot is the chain of related events that tells you what happens in a story.

Plot

EVENT 1

What do you think happens

next?

EVENT 2

Jen challenges Rick to a bike

race.

Bet I can ride

Diamondback Trail faster

than you can!

Bet you can’t!

Jen and Rick meet on the

trail.

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How are the two events linked together?

Plot

EVENT 1 EVENT 2Jen and Rick meet on the

trail.

Jen challenges Rick to a bike

race.

cause/effect

Like links in a chain, each event “hooks” our curiosity and pulls us forward to the next event.

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The story’s exposition introduces characters, settings, and the story’s basic conflict.

Plot: Exposition

EVENT 1

Jen challenges Rick to a bike

race.

Jen’s challenge presents a problem to Rick:

Should he try to impress Jen by accepting her challenge?

Should he avoid defeat or losing her friendship by choosing not to race?

OR

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Plot: Rising Action

The story’s rising action describes the series of conflicts faced by the main character. Those conflicts may include

forces of nature, such as gravity or strong head winds,

or a character’s own feelings.

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What if we add more events to the chain?

Plot: Rising Action

EVENT 1 EVENT 2Jen and Rick meet on the

trail.

Jen challenges Rick to a bike

race.

Event 3 has made the plot chain more complicated.

EVENT 3Rick’s bike chain slips

off.

The outcome of the race is no longer a matter of who can bike faster.

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If Rick can’t repair his chain quickly, he will lose the race.

Plot: Rising Action

EVENT 3Rick’s chain slips off.

If Jen rides off and leaves Rick stranded, she may win the race but lose Rick’s friendship.Event 3 is called a complication because it makes the plot’s conflict more difficult to resolve.

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Plot: Rising Action

EVENT 1 EVENT 2Jen and Rick

race.Jen challenges Rick to a bike

race.

EVENT 3? ? ? ? ? ?

What other complications might Rick or Jen face?

What would make the story interesting, exciting, or suspenseful?

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Suddenly, Rick remembers what he learned from his Uncle Eduardo:

A story’s climax is the point at which the outcome of the conflict is decided—often in a surprising way.

Plot: Climax

Rick’s chain is off his bike.Jen is circling back to check on him.

1. how to replace a slipped chain2. how to impress a girl

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Where does a story’s climax fit into the plot chain?

Plot: Climax

The story reaches its climax when the obstacles created by complications are overcome.The climax makes the ending possible.

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The resolution is the end of the story. It tells how the conflict turned out.

Plot: Resolution

How was the conflict in this story resolved?Neither Jen nor Rick won the race, but . . .they took many more bike rides together.

[End of Section]

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Where in the plot would this scene occur?

• exposition

• rising action

• climax

• resolution

Quick CheckPaul packed his last pair of jeans in his duffel bag and carried it out to the car. It was time to leave for college. His mom and dad—and Miranda—were waiting with sad smiles on their faces. Paul placed his lucky bottle cap in Miranda’s hand and climbed into the car after saying goodbye.

He was surprised to find a little box on the seat next to him. Inside it, on a cushion of cotton balls, was Miranda’s lucky letter charm—M for miracles.

[End of Section]

Plot

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Plot: Subplots

In addition to the main plot, some stories have subplots.

A subplot is a minor plot that is part of the larger story but not as important.

Main plot

Rick tries to impress Jen by agreeing to a bike race.

Subplot

Rick thinks little of his uncle’s advice—

until Rick finds that he really can use

it.

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Some plots contain parallel episodes: repeated events in a story.

Plot: Parallel Episodes

Episode 1

Rick’s chain slips off.

Rick replaces the chain,

and the race continues.

Episode 2

Rick’s front tire goes

flat.

Rick patches the tire, and

the race continues.

Episode 3

Jen’s brake cable snaps.

Rick invites Jen to his

uncle’s bike-repair shop.

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Setting provides a background—a time period and place in which the action occurs.

Setting: Setting as Background

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Writers carefully select images and details to create a setting that draws us into the story.• sigh

t• hearing

the steady beat of the drum

the tart apple

three hot-air balloons colored the sky

• taste

Setting: Setting as Background

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• smell

gritty, wet sand between her toes

strong, sweet scent of a rose

• touch

Writers carefully select images and details to create a setting that draws us into the story.

Setting: Setting as Background

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Settings can include

the location of a story.

Setting: Setting as Background

Hong Kong

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Settings may also include

• weather• time of day• time period (past, present, or future)

Setting: Setting as Background

• social customs

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Quick Check

[End of Section]

She looked across the sea of people as she made her way through the crowd.

The busy waterfront bustled with families eager to enjoy a day at the coast. Bouncing beach balls and colorful towels dotted the sunny boardwalk.

Which words in the passage help you imagine where the scene takes place?

Setting: Setting as Background

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Sometimes settings arecentral to a story’s main conflict:

Setting: Setting as Conflict

The setting may present a character with his or her main conflict.

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Quick Check

[End of Section]

Soon-yi stared at the table. Her grandmother had decorated it carefully, taking great delight in the ancient green tea ceremony.

In the center of the table sat the steaming pot of tea, surrounded by delicate cups and saucers the color of pale green jade.

Everything was unfamiliar, alien to Soon-yi’s sense of what an American meal should be.

Setting: Setting as Conflict

Which words that describe the setting help illustrate Soon-yi’s internal conflict?

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stark

balmyfoggy

Mood is the overall atmosphere or effect of a work of literature.A writer’s word choice and the story’s setting often create mood.

Setting: Mood

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menacing

peacefulmysteriou

s

What adjectives might you use to describe each of the moods illustrated below?

dark, foggy

warm breezes

ice and snow

Setting: Mood

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Quick Check

[End of Section]

At the most remote end of the crypt there appeared another less spacious. Its walls had been lined with human remains, piled to the vault overhead, in the fashion of the great catacombs of Paris. Three sides of this interior crypt were still ornamented in this manner.from “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allan Poe

What mood is created by the details of this setting?

Setting: Mood

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Choose a familiar story. It can be from a book, a TV show, or a movie.

• Use a story map like this one.

• Describe the key parts of the story’s plot.

•Make note of any parallel episodes and instances in which the setting affects the plot.•Create a new chart for any subplots.

Analyze Plot and Setting

Your Turn

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The End