Plot Review

This part identifies the setting and reveals the point of view. 

The wolf decides to crawl down the chimney and falls into a pot of boiling water that the pigs put there.

In a plot line, the climax comes DIRECTLY AFTER this component.

Conflict of the story begins to be worked out and tensions lessen. 

Wolf blows down Pig #1 and 2's houses, tries to blow down brick house but cannot.

This part occurs AFTER the climax. 

A struggle between two opposing forces

Introduces the main characters of the story.

The wolf is badly burned and runs off into the woods.

This is usually the longest part of the story because conflict develops and suspense is being built

This is usually where the theme (life lesson) is revealed

When the protagonist (main character) begins facing challenges. 

Conclusion to story; reveals how conflict is solved or how everything ends up 

Can explain things that happened BEFORE the story began. (background info)

Climax usually occurs towards the __________ of a story.

The pigs live happily ever after and no longer have to worry about the wolf bothering them.

the basic sequence of events in a story

Three pigs decide it is time to leave their mother's home and build houses of their own.

Which of the following literary elements drives the plot of a story?

This is the turning point of the main conflict and usually the most exciting part of the story