action in prose

Literature can describe mental and physical activities {action, plot}.

rising

Plots have beginnings {rising action}. Rising action starts with character presentation {exposition, character}. Exposition includes meeting between protagonist and antagonist. Conflict between protagonist and antagonist or fate {complication, plot} follows, reaching conflict height {crisis, plot} {climax, plot}. Climax can be trivial or exaggerated {anticlimax}.

falling

Plots have second sections {falling action}. Falling action starts with conflict result, which can involve winning, losing, winning then losing, or losing then winning {reversal, plot}. Endings {catastrophe, plot} describe climax-and-reversal reactions {denouement, plot} and emotions {resolution, plot}.

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