Rising
Action: often events in a story that lead to heightened suspense will
inevitably lead to a point of greatest interest, or climax.
Along
with Setting, Character and Causative Incident, Rising Action is a part of the
dramatic structure of a story. Freytag
developed a way to graphically illustrate the dramatic structure of a story in
a PLOT GRAPH, which is also referred to as Freytag’s
Pyramid.
In a work of fiction there is usually rising action. Write a paragraph that explains how rising action or suspense is created in the story that you are reading. Trace the sequence of 2 or 3 or even 4 events that serve to heighten suspense.
Remember
that your paragraph should contain a hook and clincher (come full circle)!
Example
paragraph with some missing lines!
(Hook) When Winston saw the words, “I love you” on the
slip of paper that the black haired girl surreptitiously slipped into his hand
he knew his life was about to change. The reader also senses at that Winston’s
life is about to change. This is one in a series of two more events that Orwell
uses to add suspense to his novel, Nineteen Eighty-Four… (here you would include
two more events that typify rising action)… You can be sure, as a reader, that
when the main character gets a love note from a dark haired stranger, that
there’s going to be some action in the story. (clincher)
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