- Introduction / Exposition
- Introduces the setting, main characters, and initial conflict.
- Provides background information to help the audience understand the story’s context.
- Inciting Incident
- The event that sets the story in motion.
- It triggers the main conflict and challenges the status quo.
- Rising Action
- The series of events that build tension and develop the plot.
- Characters face obstacles and conflicts, leading to a climax.
- Climax
- The turning point and most intense moment of the story.
- The main conflict reaches its peak and the outcome becomes clear.
- Falling Action
- The events that unfold after the climax.
- The tension decreases, and the story begins to move toward resolution.
- Resolution / Denouement
- The conflict is resolved, and loose ends are tied up.
- The story concludes, and the characters’ futures are hinted at.
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