American Literature / Unit 2 AML 0105 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Plot: Exposition, Rising Action, Climax, Denouement
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The idea
Exposition establishes situation and character; rising action complicates it; the climax is the moment of highest tension and decisive change; the falling action and denouement settle what follows. The pattern describes most fiction and nearly all drama, and the exam uses its vocabulary directly.
In practice
Set up, complicate, turn, settle.
Where people slip
The climax is the turn, not the loudest event.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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