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  2. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    The third act features the resolution of the story and its subplots. The climax is the scene or sequence in which the main tensions of the story are brought to their most intense point and the dramatic question answered, leaving the protagonist and other characters with a new sense of who they really are. [1]

  3. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    An exciting force begins immediately after the exposition (introduction), building the rise in one or several stages toward the point of greatest interest. These events are generally the most important parts of the story since the entire plot depends on them to set up the climax and ultimately the satisfactory resolution of the story itself. [50]

  4. Story structure - Wikipedia

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    The third act, or resolution, is when the problem in the story boils over, forcing the characters to confront it, allowing all the elements of the story to come together, leading to the climax, which is the answer to the dramatic question, being hand in hand with the end of the conflict.

  5. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Under Freytag's pyramid, the plot of a story consists of five parts: [23] [20] Exposition (originally called introduction) Rising action (rise) Climax; Falling action (return or fall) Catastrophe, denouement, resolution, or revelation [24] or "rising and sinking". Freytag is indifferent as to which of the contending parties justice favors; in ...

  6. The Seven Basic Plots - Wikipedia

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    This worsens in the nightmare stage, which is the climax of the plot, where hope is apparently lost. Finally, in the resolution, the hero overcomes his burden against the odds. The key thesis of the book: "However many characters may appear in a story, its real concern is with just one: its hero.

  7. Storytelling - Wikipedia

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    Such elements include the essential idea of narrative structure with identifiable beginnings, middles, and endings, or exposition-development-climax-resolution-denouement, normally constructed into coherent plot lines; a strong focus on temporality, which includes retention of the past, attention to present action and protention/future ...

  8. Climax (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    Death of Caesar, the climax of Shakespeare's play, Julius Caesar. The climax (from Ancient Greek κλῖμαξ (klîmax) 'staircase, ladder') or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given. [1] [2] The climax of a story is a literary ...

  9. Conflict (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    If a story ends without resolving the main or major conflict(s), it is said to have an "open" ending. [5] Open endings, which can serve to ask the reader to consider the conflict more personally, may not satisfy them, but obvious conflict resolution may also leave readers disappointed in the story.