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
Not so with Carano, a rising action star before she landed the plum role of former Rebel trooper Cara Dune in "The Mandalorian."
From Salon ● Dec. 31, 2021
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
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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