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Where you introduce your characters, establish the setting, and begin to introduce the primary conflict of your story.
Exposition
The chain of events that make up your story.
Plot
A moment that sets your story into action. As it progresses, you’ll have multiple moments of conflict that escalate and create tension as the story moves toward the climax.
Rising Action
The peak of tension, plot, and character in a story.
climax
The time the conflicts start resolving itself.
falling action
The end of your story where you can tie up the final loose ends and bring the story to its happy or tragic ending.
Resolution/Denouement
A person or other being in a narrative.
character
Challenges or problems in a story.
conflict
The time and geographic location within a narrative.
setting
A central topic, subject, or message within a narrative.
theme
Refers to who is telling a story, or who is narrating it.
point of view
The narrator is a person in the story, telling the story from their own point of view.
first person POV
Turning point of a narrative; is its point of highest tension and drama.
climax
It is where the story introduces the characters, establish the setting, and begin to introduce the primary conflict.
exposition
It is the end of the story; it may tie up loose ends or bring readers a happy ending.
Denouement/Resolution
