rising action
Example Sentences
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In short, there is no rising action, no climax, no falling action . . . which is no way to tell a story.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
It’s just the preceding rising action that feels a bit underwhelming.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2024
Although personal narratives usually follow the traditional narrative arc of exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution, personal writing has several unique features.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
I wanted to do a story that has a beginning, middle, and end, where each year is corollary to the five points of a novel, the introduction, rising action, complication, climax, and resolution.
From Salon ● Jul. 25, 2019
At the close of this scene Cassius lays his plans to win Brutus over to the conspiracy, and the complication, or rising action, of the drama begins.
From The New Hudson Shakespeare: Julius Cæsar by Ebenezer Charlton Black
