Name: __________________________
Story Structure – Parts of a Story

Directions: Take a story that you have read or a movie that you have seen and identify the parts of the story.  You may use the story that you read last night or any other.

Title of Work: ______________________________________________________________________

1.  Exposition: 
Characters and the setting

Events before the conflict is introduced	

2.  Inciting Incident: ________________________________________________________________
What initiates the conflict? 
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3-4.  Rising Action: List some events that occur before the climax.

A. _____________________________________________________________________________

B. _____________________________________________________________________________

C. _____________________________________________________________________________  

5.  Climax: 
The turning point

6-7.  Falling Action: List some events that occur after the climax.

A. _____________________________________________________________________________

B. _____________________________________________________________________________

C. _____________________________________________________________________________

8.  Moment of Final Suspense: ________________________________________________________
Is the character tested a final time?  How? 
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9.  Resolution: 
How the story ends.

10.  What does the main character learn or how does the main character change during the climax? 

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