Plot Structure

Flowchart nodes

• Exposition – beginning of the story where characters and setting are introduced

• Rising Action – where the main character faces a series of conflicts

• Inciting Moment - the event or decision that begins a story's problem

• Climax – is the particular point in a narrative at which the conflict or tension hits the highest point

• Falling Action – events leading to the end of the story

• Resolution - the unfolding or solution of a complicated issue in a story. 

• Setting – where the story takes placeConflict – as any struggle between opposing forces