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What Are Plot and Setting?. Feature Menu. Plot Subplots Parallel Episodes. Setting as Background Setting as Conflict Setting: Mood Your Turn. Jen challenges Rick to a bike race. Jen and Rick meet on the trail. Plot. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Plot Subplots Parallel Episodes
Feature Menu
Setting as Background
Setting as ConflictSetting: Mood
Your Turn
What Are Plot and Setting?
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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?
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
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.
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]
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
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.
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.
Setting provides a background—a time period and place in which the action occurs.
Setting: Setting as Background
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
• 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
Settings can include
the location of a story.
Setting: Setting as Background
Hong Kong
Settings may also include
• weather• time of day• time period (past, present, or future)
Setting: Setting as Background
• social customs
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
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.
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?
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
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
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
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
The End