falling action
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It starts from a place of safety, but then comes the rising action, the climax, the falling action — all of that,” says Wester.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 26, 2026
Nature herself is more than shapeless irregularity; the woods have glades and groves, animal trails and vistas; like literature, they have rising and falling action.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 17, 2026
The final two paragraphs offer falling action following the dramatic climax.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
They also follow a pattern: there is the introduction, rising action, a climax, a complication, falling action, and then a conclusion and resolution.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2019
The orations of Antony, in vivid contrast to the conciliatory but unimpassioned speeches of Brutus, fire the people and liberate fresh forces in the falling action.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
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