ENGLISH LITERATURE (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -What is Freytag’s Pyramid? Devised by 19th century German playwright Gustav Freytag, Freytag’s Pyramid is a paradigm of dramatic structure outlining the seven key steps in successful storytelling: exposition, inciting incident, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution, and denouement.

Detailed explanation-2: -Freytag’s Pyramid and Aristotle’s Unified Plot Structure Freytag used these five parts to analyze the structure: lowest left-exposition, left middle-rising action, highest-climax, right middle-falling action and right lowest-resolution.

Detailed explanation-3: -The definition of Freytag’s Pyramid is a five part dramatic structure that goes from the introduction into the rise, to the climax, falling action, and finally the resolution. The action in a story rises and falls in the shape of a pyramid.

Detailed explanation-4: -With Freytag’s pyramid, the plot of a story consists of five parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution and denouement (the final two are sometimes mingled). The pyramid may suggest the climax is (almost) half-way through the story, but this is rarely the case.

Detailed explanation-5: -Dramatic Structure. Dramatic Structure: The plot structure of a play including the exposition, conflict, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution (or denouement).