rising action
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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
The payoff here, the surprise appearance of Robert De Niro as Robert Mueller, is no substitute for a rising action, not least because De Niro’s performance isn’t exactly worthy of Taxi Driver.
From Slate • Nov. 11, 2018
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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