Plot & Summary Lit Terms

Plot & Structure   ■Exposition- the beginning of a story ■Rising Action- the part/substance of a story in which leads up to its main point ■Climax- the main point or message of a story; the most in depth ■Falling Action- after the climax in which a story starts to wrap up its main points ■Resolution- the conclusion; part of the story at the end where a resolved problem has occurred, whether good or bad ■Conflict (include different types)- a differing viewpoint within a story which needs resolved ■Protagonist- main character in a story or other literary work ■Antagonist- an adversary in a story or literature work ■Flashback- recurrence of events in a story that have an earlier occurrence  ■In medias res- thrown in the middle of a literary work at the beginning