Freytag's Pyramid

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Across
  1. 1. the overall message to the story
  2. 5. the moment of greatest tension in a story; the most exciting event in a play or story
  3. 6. An event that starts the action of the story that signals the beginning of conflict
  4. 9. any remaining secrets, questions or mysteries revealed
  5. 10. The events that happen as a result of the climax; signal that story is coming to an end
  6. 11. where the play is set
Down
  1. 2. Background information that sets the scene and gets us ready for the story
  2. 3. a Nineteenth Century German novelist who saw common patterns in the plots of stories/plays and novels and developed a diagram to analyze them
  3. 4. The story builds and gets more exciting
  4. 7. the arrangements of events and actions in a story
  5. 8. main conflict is solved