ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -Rising action, also known as the complication, refers to the events that take place in a story between the exposition and climax. This part of the story is often where the protagonist faces challenges and must overcome obstacles to achieve their goal. You may have heard of some of the literary terms of story structure.

Detailed explanation-2: -The rising action in a story moves the plot toward the climax through a series of progressively more complicated events and decisions by the main character or characters, leading up to a final decision of great significance.

Detailed explanation-3: -The rising action refers to the events of the story that move the plot along by adding complications or expanding the conflict.

Detailed explanation-4: -The inciting incident (sometimes called exciting force) is the moment early in the story that creates the conflict. Rising action begins with the inciting incident. The main character experiences something that makes them act and create a clear, often difficult, goal.

Detailed explanation-5: -The point of the rising action is to build suspense and tension. It has to make us care about the central narrative of the story by making the stakes higher. This means the rising action needs an element of conflict to keep pushing the story along-the protagonist has to be on a journey we can actually care about.