Component of The Stories – PLOT

Posted August 14, 2009 By admin and has no comments yet.

First major components of the stories is plot. Plot is all the events of a story particularly rendered towards the achievement of some particular artistic or emotional effect. Plot is what the story’s general theme based on.

Here are the structure of the plot itself:

  1. Exposition. The part usually presented in the beginning of the story. Including the introduction of the characters and setting.
  2. Conflict. The clash between two or more opposing groups. One character may face themselves, another person, nature, society or anything with an opposing thoughts.
  3. Rising Action. Build suspense and leads to the climax. Protagonist usually found new company, learn something or facing additional enemy for himself.
  4. Falling Action. Is part of the story following the climax. Also known as anti climax because it takes away climax from the story. This part is showing the result of the climax that affects the character as well as setting.
  5. Resolution. Climax is ended and the story is concluded. Conflicts has been resolved and the tension is released. Not all the stories have the resolution.

The second part of the components is characters which will be discussed in the next post.

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Fiction Writing Tips – Major Components of Stories

Posted August 8, 2009 By admin and has no comments yet.

After brief introduction of fiction writing tips on the previous post, now we continue to the second part of tips which is major component of the stories. Here are important components of the stories:

  1. Plot is the organization of events that will take place in the story.
  2. Characters are the people or animals who will be in the story.
  3. Setting is the physical time and place in which the story takes place.
  4. Dialogue is the spoken words of the characters in the story.
  5. Point of view is the relative identification of the narrator with the characters.
  6. Theme is the main idea or meaning behind a story.
  7. Style is the writer’s use of the language.

Each of the component will be discussed in the next posts.

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