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Lecturer: Pipit Rahayu, M.PD

The document discusses plot structure in stories. It explains that plots can be told chronologically, through flashbacks, or starting in media res. The most basic plot structure is pyramid-shaped, as described by Aristotle and Freytag, with exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Conflict is also essential to the plot, which can be interpersonal like human vs human, or internal like human vs self.

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Lecturer: Pipit Rahayu, M.PD

The document discusses plot structure in stories. It explains that plots can be told chronologically, through flashbacks, or starting in media res. The most basic plot structure is pyramid-shaped, as described by Aristotle and Freytag, with exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. Conflict is also essential to the plot, which can be interpersonal like human vs human, or internal like human vs self.

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Lecturer :

PIPIT RAHAYU,M.Pd

(1832007) DEVI KURNIAWATI


(1832008) DEWI PRASETIYA NINGRUM
(1832016) MELIA YUNITA ANGUN SN
(1832000) NURMA SARI
Plot is the literary element that describes the
structure of a story. It shows the a causal
arrangement of events and actions within a story.
Plots can be told in

Chronological order

Flashback

In media res (in the middle of things) when the


story starts in the middle of the action without
exposition
The most basic and
traditional form of
plot is pyramid-
shaped.

This structure has


been described in
more detail by
Aristotle and by
Gustav Freytag.
The basic triangle-shaped plot structure was described by
Aristotle in 350 BCE. Aristotle used the beginning, middle,
and end structure to describe a story that moved along a
linear path, following a chain of cause and effect as it
works toward the solution of a conflict or crisis.
Freytag modified Aristotle’s system by adding a rising
action (or complication) and a falling action to the
structure. Freytag used the five-part design shown above to
describe a story’s plot.
Freytag’s Pyramid is often modified so that it extends
slightly before and after the primary rising and falling
action. You might think of this part of the chart as similar
to the warm-up and cool-down for the story.
Climax: the turning point, the
most intense moment—either
mentally or in action

Rising Action: the


series of conflicts and Falling Action: all of
crisis in that lead to the the action which
climaxthe story follows the climax

Exposition: the start of Resolution: the


the story, the situation conclusion, the tying
before the action starts together of all of the
Conflict is the dramatic struggle
between two forces in a story.
Without conflict, there is no plot.
Interpersonal Conflict
Human vs Human

Human vs Nature

Human vs Society

Internal Conflict
Human vs Self

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