type i briefly summarize your favorite film. be sure to describe characters and conflicts. –1 ½...
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Type I
• Briefly summarize your favorite film. Be sure to describe characters and conflicts.– 1 ½ pages minimum– Must write in complete sentences!
Plot
• Plot:– Sequence of events in a literary work.– Consists of exposition, complication,
rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.
• Involves both characters and a central conflict.
Parts of Plot
• Exposition: – The part of the plot that introduces the
characters, the setting, and the basic situation.
• The Exposition is your “background information.”
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Parts of Plot
• Complication:– Part of the plot directly following exposition– Central conflict is introduced
• The Complication is the first time we hear of the major conflict that must be resolved.
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Parts of Plot
• Rising Action:– All events leading up to the climax
• The Rising Action can be made of just a few events or can be made of hundreds of events
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Parts of Plot
• Climax: – The high point of interest or suspense.
• The Climax is the result of the complication, and rising action
• The Climax leads to the falling action and resolution.
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Parts of the Plot• Falling Action:
– Events leading to the resolution of the central conflict.
• The Falling Action can contain many events, or it can contain just one event.
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Parts of Plot
• Resolution: – The end of the central conflict.
• The Resolution is usually the end of the story.• FYI: Events after the resolution are called the
denouement.
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Resolution
Plot of Forrest Gump
• Exposition:– The very beginning of
the movie– Forrest is sitting on the
park bench…– “If I think real hard,
maybe I can remember my first pair of shoes…”
Plot of Forrest Gump
• Rising Action:– Jenny and Forrest
become the best of friends.
– Forrest goes away to college
– Forrest goes to war
Plot of Forrest Gump
• Falling Action:– Jenny leaves again– Forrest runs across
the country– Jenny and Forrest
reunite– Jenny and Forrest
marry