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What are the stages or elements of a plot?

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1) Exposition/Introduction: This part introduces the characters and their personalities.

2) Rising Action: This part helps recognize and reveal the conflicts of the characters to another character or to himself. This also shows the progression of the story.

3) Climax: This Part shows suspense (Turning point) In the novel that suprises the reader.

4) Falling Action or Resolution: this part demonstrates how the character had done accordingly in the rising action. (If we have a rising action we have the falling action.)

Major plot elements would be:

Character
Conflict
Complication
Crisis-Climax
Change
Resolution

There is however another school of thought that involves 8 parts of a plot.

Point of entrance
exposition
defining event
rising action
crisis
falling action
denouement
closure

To be technically correct, a plot can be generalized as "whats going to happen" in a story. All stories are different, and some will have more or less plot points than 5.

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