rising action
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rising actions
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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
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
With the introduction of finger spelling, this paragraph and the next present the rising action building toward the climax of this story.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 21, 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 Ebenezer Charlton Black
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