Plot structure
3rd Six weeks project
Graphic Organizer
- 5 w's graphic organizer
A chart to help you organize your ideas
What happened?
Who was there?
Why did it happen?
When did it happen?
Where did it happen?
- Outline
Helps you organize your thoughts
What is plot structure?
Includes the setting, characters
Rising action-
Suspense is growing here, the protagonist is faced with a problem
Climax-
Where the tension of the story is at its highest; point of greatest tension
Falling action-
Conflict outcome; resulting events. Resolution of characters crisis
Resolution-
Final outcome;Also often called denouement, which is French for "to untie" or "unravel"
Revising and Editing
- Revision
-Add detail in the form of adjectives and adverbs
-Add similes, metaphors, and a strong opening (hook, thesis)
-Improving closing (conclusion)
-Change words
- Editing
-Deals with the paper as a whole
-Checking and correcting spelling and grammar
-Correcting punctuation
Points of view
- First person-
Uses the "I" narrator
- Peripheral
Supporting character; still uses "I" but narrator is not the protagonist
- Second person-
Told from the perspective "you"
- Third person-
Used when your narrator is not a character in the story (he/ she/ it)
-Limited
Limited only one character; narrator only knows what the character knows
-Multiple
still uses he/she/it category; narrator can follow multiple characters in the story
-Omniscient
Still uses the he/she/it but narrator knows everything and isn't limited by what one character knows
Mood
Setting
Sensory Language
Plot and Character Development
A literary term used to describe the events that make up a story or main part of the story
Character-
The portrayal of people in a work of fiction in such way, the reader or audience seems to learn more about them as it develops.