Gustav Freytag was a nineteenth century German novelist who saw a common pattern in plots of stories and novels and developed a diagram to analyse them. He diagrammed a story’s plot using a pyramid.
Exposition: setting the scene, Characters and settings are introduced, providing description and background.
Inciting Incident: Something happens to begin the action. A single event usually signals the beginning of the main conflict, sometimes also called ‘The complication’
Rising Action: The Story builds and gets more exciting.
Climax: The moment of greatest tension in a story. This often is the most exciting event. It is the event that the rising action builds up to and that the falling action follows.
Falling action: Events happen as a result of the climax and we know that the story will soon end.
Resolution: The character solved the main problem/conflict or someone solves it for them.
Denouement: (a French term) The ending. At this point, any remaining secrets, questions or mysteries which remain after the resolution are solved by the characters. (You can think of the denouement as the opposite of the exposition)
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