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Rising action
noun
A part of a book or play in which more things start to happen. The rising action leads to the climax.
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Rising action – the 'ugly sisters' make Cinderella do the housework and don't invite her to the ball.
Rising Action.
Rising action is the sequence of events that ultimately leads to the climax.
Rising action is the events that happen before the most exciting event and/or the events that contribute to the suspense.
But Welsh fails to build any sense of rising action.
There were quizzes on vocabulary like metaphor, foreshadowing, prose and rising action.
Use the questions to help plot the steps of rising action from scene to scene.
Despite its apparent traditionalism, the book itself resists the conventions of steadily rising action or dénouement.
The opera's rising action begins with the bird's theft of a silver spoon, and later, a silver coin.
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The palace courtyard became a board room populated by many empty chairs; a TV monitor on the rear wall chronicled the rising action--fraught, no doubt, with meaning--of an ordinary escalator.
Though every short story is different, here are some basic elements of a short story: The rising action/exposition: this typically comes at the beginning of a short story, when readers are introduced to the main characters, the setting, and the central conflict.
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