Freytag's Pyramid is a way to analyze a plot that consists of five elements in an ascending
and descending manner. In the introduction, the plot, characters, and complication are
introduced. This leads to the rising action, or the events that lead to the climax of the plot.
At the point of highest dramatic tension, or at a major turning point in the plot, the audience
finds the climax. This decisive moment in the narrative is when the rising action is reversed
to falling action. The falling action, then, is made up of the events that follow the climax and
lead to the denouement. The final outcome, result, or unraveling of the main dramatic
complication is called the denouement. The denouement may involve a reversal in the
protagonist's fortunes, usually as the result of a discovery (recognition of something of great
importance previously unknown) by the protagonist.
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