ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -In storytelling, falling action refers to the period after the dramatic confrontation of the climax. This portion of the narrative helps deflate the plot’s tension and gives the character time to unwind after the emotional scene.

Detailed explanation-2: -The falling action of a story is the section of the plot following the climax, in which the tension stemming from the story’s central conflict decreases and the story moves toward its conclusion.

Detailed explanation-3: -The falling action is what comes after the climax of the plot. It serves as a way of reducing the tension and allowing the characters, and the reader, some much-needed breathing space. The falling action will sometimes include characters speculating what will happen now that the main conflict has been resolved.

Detailed explanation-4: -Falling action is the bridge between the climax and the denouement. The denouement is the final part of the story that ties up the loose ends of the plot, or at least some of them. Although the falling action is typically shorter than the rising action, it’s not just a winding down period.

Detailed explanation-5: -Rising Action-one (or more) characters in crisis. (It begins with the inciting force and ends with the climax.) Falling Action-resolution of character’s crisis. (The events after the climax which close the story.)