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This is an introduction to the plot pyramid! Enjoy!

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this is an introduction to the plot pyramid the plot pyramid is way to help you organize and understand development of action in a story even though I have the pyramid in the background there what you really should be looking at are the teal lines that turned out how is story develops when the lines go higher It generally means that the story is growing more and more exciting the plot pyramid begins here with his Flatline that's the exposition the exposition introduces The Story So this includes chasing characters and settings can wake in this video from Mean Girls Rock desperate wannabe burnout  the acting family the greatest so they're in a really obvious way Mean Girls was introducing the main characters the next thing that the exposition does is get background information like the stained-glass window section of Beauty and the Disney's Beauty and the Beast which tells us the background information of how the prince became a beast  it also sets the mood like the very famous opening line it was a dark and stormy night sets a Sinister for foreboding mood now I want you to think about Gohan the pot take a second and try to figure out what information was part of the exposition  one thing you might have come up with was very opening where we discover that go why is poor and needs a pot in order to cook food for his family  the next part of the plot pyramid is that little angle right Max is just a moment in time and that's called and inciting incident this is the event that introduces the central conflict of the story unlike Beck decision which feature is a bunch of things that's why it was a whole line the inciting incident is just one moment in time like the moment when Cinderella and her family receive the invitation to the princess ball this is going to start the central conflict because Cinderella is going to be concerned with how she's going go to the ball and change your life Gohan the pot also has an inciting incident take a moment and try to figure out what it is I think the inciting incident is when goha decides to ask his neighbor for the pots  next song pyramid we have that big line that's Rising right here and that's called the rising action and this is everything that happens to develop the conflict to the highest play Infinity so in a heist movie this would be the planning stages where they're mapping out where they're going to steal things and 64 heists  take a moment and figure out what is the rising action in Gohan in the pot is kind of like a high story because to do with this plan Gohan and the pots rising action includes all of those times where he gave his neighbor baby pots and then we get to the very top right there this is another moment in time and that's the climax we can talk what the climax in terms of two groups first is the moment of high suspense so that's more centered in the audience at the moment where the audience is like all what's going to happen is also the turning point in the story in this is more about how the text develops so Francis and Cinderella  when she goes UPS and Cinderella when she goes to the ball and dances with the prince that changes everything for her and for him because he has this enchanting woman who clearly doesn't clean houses that he wants to try and marry  Gohan the pot think about what would be the climax there I think the moment that everything changes is when The Neighbor very enthusiastically gives goha a bunch of pots and we know that that's the third time and I'm a third time oftentimes things change and go high strategy changes completely after that the next phase is the falling action so it's that whole line going down and this is the event is composed the events that fall of the climax on other way to think of it as the repercussions of the climax  so in Lion King Simba's climaxes when Rafiki convinces him that he has to go back because he lets him know who he truly is and so is the function is the section right here where Simba's rushing back to Pride Rock in order to try and fix things alright and Gohan the pot what do you think is the falling action  if the climax is when so hot borrows all of the pots from his neighbor a good way to think of the falling action it includes several events but one of them is in neighbor waiting around for 3 hoping that go how will bring his pots back with lots of baby pots  after the following action we have another Moment In Time type of events and that is the resolution and this is exactly what it sounds like it's the point at which the central conflict is ended or result and it is also one moment in time so the resolution and Snow White is the moment when her prince kisses her and wakes her up break my first of her evil stepmother what's the resolution in Gohan in the pot it's a pretty sad Rose fiction the resolution is that the pots die it's sad for the neighbor and offer goha and then lastly we have this line right here which is referred to as the day new ma that's a French word and add a new mods ties up all the loose ends are gives closure so for instance in Aladdin what does the genie is freed and going on vacation and wearing his goofy hat isn't really resolved in the story but it's letting us know what's happening to some of our different characters where they're going from there  the last time Gohan if I think this one's kind of hard because I think the add a new mall and Gohan in the pot is kind of implied and that's that go ha who was one struggling now has a bunch of pots to cook for his fam and wrap some money too so that is the plot pyramid what I'd like you to do before you get to class tomorrow just think about a movie or a story that you're really familiar with see if you can charge it on the plot pyramid in your head as you might have guessed Disney Movers movies are kind of a good way to go I used to lot of them in my examples but you can go with any story that you're familiar with see if it fits the plot pyramid sometimes they don't fit perfectly in fact a lot of literature written after the 19 teens deliberately tries to break up the plot pyramid but try it out and see how it goes

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