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The document outlines the typical stages of a plot: exposition introduces the characters and conflict, rising action intensifies the conflict through complications, climax is the turning point with greatest suspense, falling action resolves the climax and reveals the outcome, and resolution ties up loose ends. While not all plots exactly follow these five stages, every story introduces an initial conflict in the exposition that intensifies through complicating events in the rising action.

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Plot Structure3

The document outlines the typical stages of a plot: exposition introduces the characters and conflict, rising action intensifies the conflict through complications, climax is the turning point with greatest suspense, falling action resolves the climax and reveals the outcome, and resolution ties up loose ends. While not all plots exactly follow these five stages, every story introduces an initial conflict in the exposition that intensifies through complicating events in the rising action.

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The Interlopers

Plot Stages and Conflict


The plot is the sequence of events in a story.
It is how the author arranges events to
develop his or her basic idea.
The plot typically develops in five stages:
a)
Exposition- Introduces characters,
setting and conflict.
b)
Rising action- Presents complications
that intensify the conflict.
c)
Climax- Is the turning point and the
moment of greatest suspense.
d)
Falling Action- Eases the suspense.
Reveals the outcome of the storys climax.
e)
Resolution- Reveals the final outcome.
Ties up loose ends.
Not all stories have plots that neatly match
the five steps shown in the diagram. Many
stories, for example, dont reach their climax
until just before the end. Other stories end
with a climax.

Almost every story, though, begins with an


exposition that introduces events that
intensify or complicate the conflict.

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