rising action
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Install hockey play-by-play announcers who emphasize the rising action, then scream “goal!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
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
This rising action builds tension by contrasting Twain’s earlier stated confidence with his increasing anxiety.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 2021
He meticulously plans his sets — each one has a beginning, establishing action, rising action, climax, falling action and ending, as he instructed his MasterClass — but knows how to read the room.
From New York Times ● Oct. 12, 2021
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
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