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| Struggle or clash between opposing characters or opposing forces |
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| A character struggles with an outside force |
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| Conflict that takes place entirely within a character's mind |
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| A series of related events that make up a story or drama |
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| Beginning of the story that introduces the setting, characters and their conflict |
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| Events leading to the climax |
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| Obstacle that the characters must overcome as they work to resolve the conflict |
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| Moment of greatest emotional intensity or suspense, when we learn what the outcome of the conflict is going to be |
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| Events leading to the denouement |
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| End of the story where all of the struggles are over and we know what will happen to the characters |
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| Arrangement of details in time order - in the order in which they happened |
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| A scene that interrupts the current action of the plot toflash backward and tell what happened at an earlier time |
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| A scene that interrupts the current action of the plot to flash into the future |
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| The use of clues to hint at events that will occur later in a plot |
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