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  2. Story structure - Wikipedia

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    Story is a sequence of events, which can be true or fictitious, that appear in prose, verse or script, designed to amuse or inform an audience. [1] Story structure is a way to organize the story's elements into a recognizable sequence. It has been shown to influence how the brain organizes information. [2]

  3. List of story structures - Wikipedia

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    The parts are: introduction, attack, rising action, crisis, falling action, resolution, conclusion. The attack would be relabeled the "inciting incident" later and the crisis would be relabeled "climax" and the conclusion as the "dénouement" by Syd Field. The resolution as a turning point was also taken out.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Three-act structure - Wikipedia

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    The three-act structure is a model used in narrative fiction that divides a story into three parts , often called the Setup, the Confrontation, and the Resolution. It has been described in different ways by Aelius Donatus in the fourth century A.D. and by Syd Field in his 1979 book Screenplay: The Foundations of Screenwriting .

  6. Character arc - Wikipedia

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    During the second act, also referred to as "rising action", the character arc develops as the protagonist attempts to resolve the problem initiated by the first turning point, only to discover ever-worsening situations, which often lead to the learning of new skills, the discovery of capabilities, and (sometimes late in the second act if at all) the raising of self-awareness.

  7. Rising action - Wikipedia

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

  8. 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 ...

  9. Fiction-writing mode - Wikipedia

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    In Poetics, Aristotle refers to action as a mode, or manner of representing something. [28] Action is the demonstration of events as they are happening in a story, [29] [30] and may help readers feel as if they were participating in the plot. [31]