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What is a rising action?

What is a rising action? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. 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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A notable difference between the roller coaster ride and a story, however, is that in the scenes, there tends to be a pattern of rising action rather than the peaks and valleys of a carnival ride.
Again and again, Kharms shuffles up to the place in Freytag's Triangle where the rising action bursts upward, then turns and hustles back the way he came.
The opera's rising action begins with the bird's theft of a silver spoon, and later, a silver coin.
Gustav Freytag developed Aristotle's three parts into five: exposition, rising action, turning point, falling action and resolution.
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.

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