Plot

__**INTRODUCTION:**__ The intorduction is found the begining of a short story. An intorduction introduces you to the setting, where it may take place, and characters, what type of people they are. Introduces you to the theme and the mood of the story. The introduction may tell you what the person maybe doing in the story or whats the main idea in the story.

Example: The Interlopers In a forest of mixed growth somewhere on the eastern spurs of the Carpathians, a man stood one winter night watching and listening, as though he waited for some beast of the woods to come within the range of his vision, and, later, of his rifle. But the game figured in the sportsman's calendar as lawful and proper for the chase; Ulrich von Gradwitz patrolled the dark forest in quest of the human enemy.

The rising action leads up to the climax. The purpose of the action is to build up suspence to the finish of the climax. The rising action isn't in the middle of the story, but the action right before the climax.
 * __RISING ACTION:__**

Example: A Mountain Journey When Dave Conroy doesn't dry his feet and legs off after he falls into the ice water. He ends up getting really cold and his feet start to freeze. When he gets to the cabin its burnt down and he's already frozen. He has no way on warming himself up, he can't move his hands and can't start a fire.

The climax is the turning point in the story. It is found near the ending of the story. It is what the rising action build you up too.
 * __CLIMAX:__**

Example: A Mountain Journey When dave sits down in the snow and falls asleep.

The conclusion is at the end of a story. Where it tyes/brings everything together. The conculsion is found at the end of a short story and tyes the whole story in the last sentence/ paragraph.
 * __CONCLUSION:__**

Example: The Witch The man is done telling the little boy the story and his mother tell the man to leave. The little boy thinks and in the end thinks the man is a witch not the mans little sister.