Around the world in 80 days: The plot tells it all

Fill in the blanks with the following words to test your knowledge on the basics of a plot

events      conflict       conclusion      incidents       tying up        sequence of actions 

 climax      setting      characters        introduction      turning point        most exciting 

Exposition: The exposition is the (1) ___________ to the story. In this section the (2)____________ is established and the (3)___________are introduced.

Rising action: During the rising action section, you see a clear (4) ___________that leads you in a specific direction. Often you begin to see a series of conflicts and crisis in the story that leads to the (5) ____________.

Climax: This is the (6)_________ part of the story and is often the (7)_________ of a story where the (8) __________ takes place.

Falling action: Any (9) ___________or (10) __________that take place following the climax.

Resolution: The (11) ____________, the (12) ______________ of all the sub plots.


Below are the main components of the plot in Around the World in Eighty Days. Place the number of each story component at the suitable column in the Plot Diagram.

1. When Passepartout arrives earlier than Fogg in Yokohama, he joins an acrobatic show.
2. Fogg is happy because he has gained a charming woman to make him the happiest man.
3. He has to burn parts of the boat to keep it sailing to make it on time.
4. They are arrested when Passepartout is found guilty of entering a temple with shoes.
5. The trip to Calcutta is stopped when there is a gap in the train lines in which Fogg has to buy an elephant.
 6. Fogg arrives in London five minutes late and believes that he has lost the bet.
 7. From Paris, they sail to Suez on a ship called Mongolia.
8. A train to New York has to cross a bridge at a very high speed and they are successful but the bridge collapses soon after!
9. Fogg accepts a bet that he can travel around the world in eighty days.
 10. They sail for Hong Kong on the Rangoon.
 11. While performing the „human pyramid‟, he sees his master and Aouda, and Passepartout joins them again to move on to San Francisco.
12. He goes to the Reform Club at 8.45 p.m. and is announced the winner.
13. In Liverpool, Fogg is arrested by Fix but is released a few hours later when they realize that the real bank robber has been arrested.
14. Phileas Fogg hires a new butler.
 15. They miss the ship to Liverpool so Fogg hires the Henrietta instead.
 16. Fogg has miscalculated his return by one day.
17. When bandits attack the train, Passepartout crawls under the train to stop it by separating the engine from the rest of the train.
18. Even though he has won twenty thousand pounds in the bet, he has spent nineteen thousand pounds on his journey.