Climax: The conflict is faced during the main, most dramatic event of the story. Falling action: The story begins to slow down, showing results of the climax. Resolution: The story is tied up and concluded.

The climax (from the Greek word κλῖμαξ, meaning “staircase” and “ladder”) or turning point of a narrative work is its point of highest tension and drama, or it is the time when the action starts during which the solution is given. The climax of a story is a literary element.

The CLIMAX of the story is when the CONFLICT of the PLOT is resolved.It is often the most exciting part of the story: when the hero saves the princess, discovers the buried treasure, or slays the dragon. Imagine when you read a story that you are climbing up a mountainside. The CLIMAX is the mountain peak.

Here’s a quick and simple definition: The rising action of a story is the section of the plot leading up to the climax, in which the tension stemming from the story’s central conflict grows through successive plot developments.

Denouement is the point in a story in which the conflict is resolved. The denouement always occurs after the climax, in the final part of a story’s narrative arc.

“Rising Action” is the term used to describe the sequence of events that precede the climax. The rising action begins at the lefthand base, and it rises up to the climax. The falling action and resolution descend down from the right side of the climax.

The plot is the sequence of events in the story from the beginning to the end (timeline). Usually the order of events is: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution.

2) Rising Action – Events in the story become complicated; the conflict is revealed. These are events between the introduction and climax.

Climax: The climax occurs at the turning point which is usually the most suspenseful or emotional moment of the story. The climax is reached when the protagonist takes the last step to resolve a conflict or reach a goal. The result of this step or action is the turning point.

The first stage of plot. This stage introduces the setting and the important characters. The conflict may also be introduced. This is the stage when all of the loose ends of the story are tied together and the final outcome is resolved.

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The plot is the underlying principle of tragedy’. By plot Aristotle means the arrangement of incidents. Incidents mean action, and tragedy is an imitation of actions, both internal and external. That is to say that it also imitates the mental processes of the dramatic personae.

In the Poetics, Aristotle outlines the features of a well written tragedy. He mentions that tragedy has six component parts: plot, character, diction, reasoning, spectacle and lyric poetry. The most important of these are plot and then character. Plot is the most important part of tragedy.

Terms in this set (7)

• Unhappy End. Main character comes to unhappy end.
• Important in Society. Hero is usually some one important in society.
• Extraordinary Abilities.
• Outside Forces/Antagonist.
• Related Events.
• Audience’s Sympathy.
• Meets Doom.

Tragedy is an essential component (in both our life and literature) that provides the opportunity for one to expand one’s perspectives on life, and also allows one to “test” oneself in order to see how much one is able to successfully achieve, or to be able to recognize the limit one is capable of achieving.

Characteristics of Shakespearean Tragedy… A tragedy is a drama in which a series of actions leads to the downfall of the main character, called the tragic hero. The plot builds to a catastrophe, or a disastrous final outcome, that usually involves the death of the hero and many others.