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  2. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    The Decisive Point of Action. Something takes place which makes it impossible for the "rising action" to go further. Affairs must take a new direction. The Falling Action, leading from the climax. The Final Lift, something which checks the downward action; a new problem arises. The Catastrophe, or Dénouement. The End, or the result of the ...

  3. Story structure - Wikipedia

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    Story structure or narrative structure is the recognizable or comprehensible way in which a narrative's different elements are unified, including in a particularly chosen order and sometimes specifically referring to the ordering of the plot: the narrative series of events, though this can vary based on culture.

  4. Plot (narrative) - Wikipedia

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    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 both groups, good and evil, power and weakness, are mingled. [25]

  5. Falling action - Wikipedia

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    Falling action is a segment in the structure of a dramatic or literary work. Falling action, analysed as part of a three-act structure; Falling action, ...

  6. Catastrophe (drama) - Wikipedia

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    [1] René Le Bossu, a 17th-century French critic, divides the catastrophe, at least with regards to epics, into the unravelling, or denouement, and the finishing, or achievement; the latter of which he makes the result of the former, and to consist in the hero's passage out of a state of trouble and agitation, to rest and quiet. This period is ...

  7. Act (drama) - Wikipedia

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    Act Three: Rising action and climax; Act Four: Falling action; Act Five: Resolution (For tragedies, a catastrophe is added before it.) A similar five-part structure is also used in traditional Japanese Noh drama, particularly by Zeami Motokiyo. Zeami, in his work Sandō (The Three Paths), originally described a five-part (five dan) Noh play as ...

  8. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    The first act is usually used for exposition, to establish the main characters, their relationships, and the world they live in.Later in the first act, a dynamic, on-screen incident occurs, known as the inciting incident, or catalyst, that confronts the main character (the protagonist), and whose attempts to deal with this incident lead to a second and more dramatic situation, known as the ...

  9. Glossary of literary terms - Wikipedia

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    falling action falling rhythm fancy and imagination fantasy farce feminine ending feminine rhyme A rhyme with two syllables, with one stressed and one unstressed; e.g. "merry" rhymed with "tarry". [3] [11] Contrast masculine rhyme. fiction figurative language figure of speech figure of twins See hendiadys. fin de siècle flashback