This document discusses the key elements of plot structure in flash fiction and short stories. It defines flash fiction and outlines some of its common characteristics, including brevity and inclusion of essential story elements. The document then focuses on plot, identifying it as the arrangement of causal events that move a story along. It presents Aristotle's model of a unified beginning-middle-end structure and contrasts it with an episodic structure involving flashbacks. Finally, it introduces Freytag's pyramid model that expands Aristotle's structure with rising action, climax, and falling action components.

1. LESSON
FLASH FICTION AND
STORY PLOT

2. FLASH FICTION
-Also known as short-short
story,micro stories,postcard fiction,
nanotales
-It may be written in any genre
-It also bears the essential
elements of a short story which is
the PLOT

4. CHARACTERISTICS OF
FLASH FICTION
1.Story Structure
2.Setting
3.Characters and
Backstory
4.Description

5. The PLOT

6. Plot is the literary element that describes the
structure of a story. It shows the a causal
arrangement of events and actions within a story.
Teaching Plot Structure

7. TWO TYPES OF PLOT
1.Unified
2.Episodic

8. Aristotle’s Unified Plot
The basic triangle-shaped plot structure was
described by Aristotle in 350 BCE. Aristotle used
the beginning, middle, and end structure to
describe a story that moved along a linear path,
following a chain of cause and effect as it works
toward the solution of a conflict or crisis.

9. PLOT is
CHARACTER revealed by
ACTION.
--Aristotle, 350 BCE
Fig.2

10. Episodic Plot
-has a story happens in much
extended period of time.
-A writers who employs episodic
plot frequently uses the technique
of “ Flashback” to lay out the
background details of the story.
Similar to the unifed plot, it has
also central character, setting and
action

11. EPISODIC PLOT

12. Three ways to write a
PLOT
1.PLOT- A movement in time
- The plot is a movement of time
when the story transpire on
particular period of time such as an
hour, a day, a week , a month or a
year

13. Three ways to write a
PLOT
2.PLOT- A movement in casualty
- When the story is established on a
series of casual events that happen
one after another. Here the writer is
to create a story based on the
principles of cause and effect

14. Three ways to write a
PLOT
3.PLOT- A movement in
dramatic tension
- The story has dialogue, action,
details, descriptions of scenes that
amplify the tension and persuade
the readers to turn the page and
continue reading.

15. Freytag’s Plot Structure
Freytag modified Aristotle’s system by adding a
rising action (or complication) and a falling action
to the structure. Freytag used the five-part design
shown above to describe a story’s plot.

16. Modified Plot Structure
Freytag’s Pyramid is often modified so that it
extends slightly before and after the primary
rising and falling action. You might think of this
part of the chart as similar to the warm-up and
cool-down for the story.

17. Plot Components
Exposition: the start of the
story, the situation before the
action starts
Rising Action: the series of
conflicts and crisis in the story
that lead to the climax
Climax: the turning point, the
most intense moment—either
mentally or in action
Falling Action: all of the
action which follows the
climax
Resolution: the conclusion,
the tying together of all of
the threads

18. TASK IN THE Google
CLASSROOM
-Answer What I Have
learned on page 18

19. REMINDERS
-SUMMATIVE TEST TOMORROW
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