rising action
Example Sentences
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It’s just the preceding rising action that feels a bit underwhelming.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2024
His recent work delved into the “narrative identities” patients formed around the illness—that is, the way they view the arc of their life, the stuff that counts as important exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution.
From Slate • Jun. 5, 2022
Introduced in the exposition and developed in the rising action, this incident sets the mood of the story and engages readers.
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 Black, Ebenezer Charlton
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
