rising action
Example Sentences
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Install hockey play-by-play announcers who emphasize the rising action, then scream “goal!”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2026
His recent work delved into the “narrative identities” patients formed around the illness—that is, the way they view the arc of their life, the stuff that counts as important exposition, rising action, climax, and resolution.
From Slate ● Jun. 5, 2022
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
They also follow a pattern: there is the introduction, rising action, a climax, a complication, falling action, and then a conclusion and resolution.
From Salon ● Feb. 28, 2019
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
