The document discusses plot development and its five main parts: exposition, rising action, climax/turning point, falling action, and resolution/denoument. It provides examples from the story of The Three Little Pigs to illustrate each part of the plot structure. Specifically, it notes that exposition provides background on the characters and setting, rising action builds conflict, the climax is the turning point that addresses the central problem, falling action unravels the conflict, and resolution concludes the story.

1. Plot Development

2. What is plot?
● A story's plot is what happens in the story and the order
it happens in.
● It's the road map that takes your story from point A to
point B.
● Plot development has 5 main parts:
o Exposition
o Rising Action
o Climax/Turning Point
o Falling Action
o Resolution/Denoument

3. Plot Diagram
The plot
diagram is
used to
organize the
events in
the plot.

4. Background information
for the audience about
the plot, characters’
histories, and setting.
Ex: In Three Little Pigs, the
exposition would be that the
three little pigs’ mother wanted
the pigs to go out and make
their own lives for themselves.
She packs their lunch and send
them on their way.
Exposition

5. Rising Action
Actions that build up to the
climax or point of greatest
interest. It is also where the
conflict begins to develop.
(Ex: In The Three Little Pigs, this
would include the wolf’s
successful attempt to blow the
houses down and his last
unsuccessful attempt to blow the
brick house down.)
Conflict - The tension or interest
created in the story
(Ex: In The Three Little Pigs, the big
bad wolf wants to get inside their
houses so he can eat them. If they
don’t let him in, he’ll blow their house
down.)

6. Climax
The turning point, which marks
a change, in the protagonist’s
affairs. It is also the highest
point of action or suspense and
addresses the problem.
(Ex: In The Three Little Pigs, the
climax would be when the wolf
gets frustrated and tries to go
down the brick house’s chimney.)

7. Falling Action
This is the events leading to the
end of the story. It is where the
conflict unravels.
(Ex: The wolf lands in the pig’s
cauldron and gets burned.)

8. Resolution
The conclusion or end of
the story.
(Ex: The wolf runs off into
the forest and leaves the
pigs alone.
In some stories the pigs eat
the wolf.)