Assignment 2: Short Story Plot Map

CHOOSE A SHORT STORY (NOT A POEM) FROM THIS COURSE

Here is a link to a list of short stories from this class: Short Stories for Story/Plot Map

Do not attempt to do the story map assignment until you have read through the entire story you are going to be using!

Plot - How the author arranges events to develop the basic idea; it is the sequence of events in a story or play. The plot is a planned, logical series of events having a beginning, middle, and end.

Choose the format that works best for your computer/device:

CLICK HERE FOR PDF FORMAT: PDF Version - Story Map

CLICK HERE FOR POWER-POINT FORMAT: Power-Point Format

How to fill in the Story map

1. Title and Author

2. Theme:

Write a sentence explaining the theme, in the long box at the top. The theme is the author's message. (Common themes are "Love conquers all", "Nothing good is easy", "War involves sacrifice")

3. Introduction:

Quote: Choose a sentence or two from the beginning of the story, and

Significance: tell how this relates to the theme

4. Rising Action:

Quote: Choose a sentence or two where the conflict is revealed, and

Significance: tell how this relates to the theme

5. Climax:

Quote: Choose a sentence or two when the main character learns something that will affect the outcome of the story, and

Significance: tell how this relates to the theme

6. Falling Action:
Quote: Choose a sentence or two when events and complications start to fall into place, and

Significance: tell how this relates to the theme

7. Resolution:
Quote: Choose a sentence or two that tells about the final outcome of the story, and

Significance: tell how this relates to the theme

8. Citation:

A story plot diagram is a line graph representing the story's events, with the beginning of the story on the left, the story's progression to the right, and the story's conclusion on the right.

A story's plot is the development of its events. The storyline elements in almost every story are the same. There are six elements to a story:

Exposition: In a storyline, exposition establishes the time, place, primary character, supporting cast, and atmosphere of the narrative.

Conflict: The main character is faced with an issue, crisis, challenge, dilemma, or impediment.

Rising Action: number of solutions to the conflict that the protagonist tries

Climax: The story's climax is when the action peaks, the main character and the issue are resolved, and the story takes a turn for the better.

Falling Action: The Falling action includes the resolution of all narrative issues, the fallout from the climax, and a look back at how the main character has changed.

Resolution: The resolution, whether it is a joyful or sad ending, entertaining or terrifying, gratifying or unsatisfied, is where the plot ends.

We can practise creating a plot diagram by using the most straightforward stories, like Little Miss Muffet.

1. What is the beginning of the story? Who occupies the central role? What is the setting? We meet Miss Muffet at the outset of the story as she eats cottage cheese while sitting on a hassock (tuffet).

2. What conflict does our main character encounter in the rising action? She had to deal with the spider that just showed up.

3. The way our main character resolves her issue is the story's climax. Miss Muffet decides to flee in order to resolve her issue. Miss Muffet's departure marks the story's dramatic conclusion.

Learn more about story elements from here-

https://brainly.com/question/25748522

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