The exposition section of any plot includes information about characters and their circumstances. Authors create an atmosphere, a setting, and provide readers with key background information to get the story going. Sometimes it is called the introduction.
The conflict is a struggle between opposing forces. The conflict causes the action in the story. There are two kinds of conflicts: external and internal. An external conflict is a struggle against something outside the character like forces of nature or another person. An internal conflict is a struggle that takes place within the mind of a character like making a decision, to overcome a feeling, or to take action.
Conflicts are external and some are internal:
Person vs. person (problem with another character)
Person vs. society (problem is with the laws or beliefs of a group of people. )
Person vs. nature (problem with the environment)
Person vs. self (problem deciding what to do or think
Person vs. fate (problem that seems to be uncontrollable)
Rising action begins with the conflict beginning to gain complications; main events in the story are set in motion. The action is said to “rise” because during this portion of the plot both, problems and reader interest, grow in intensity. The conflict gets to its worst. All these actions lead to the climax.
The climax is at its worst and this is the turning point of the story, the moment where the main character acts in such a way that the plot changes direction, and gains an understanding the solution to the problem. All future action follows from this point in time are referred to as “falling action.” As the action falls, events draw inevitably towards their conclusion.
The FALLING ACTION is where the tension decreases and the author describes how the conflict begins to be settled.
The resolution is a conclusion because in it, the story’s conflicts are resolved, sometimes in by the hero’s defeat or death, other times with a happy ending.
