Literature can describe event sequences {plot, literature}. Works can use subplots within main plot or plots {underplot} contrasting with main plot. Works can have main subplots or underplots {double plot}.
Literature can describe mental and physical activities {action, plot}.
rising
Plots have beginnings {rising action}. Rising action starts with character presentation {exposition, character}. Exposition includes meeting between protagonist and antagonist. Conflict between protagonist and antagonist or fate {complication, plot} follows, reaching conflict height {crisis, plot} {climax, plot}. Climax can be trivial or exaggerated {anticlimax}.
falling
Plots have second sections {falling action}. Falling action starts with conflict result, which can involve winning, losing, winning then losing, or losing then winning {reversal, plot}. Endings {catastrophe, plot} describe climax-and-reversal reactions {denouement, plot} and emotions {resolution, plot}.
Action involves struggle {conflict, literature} between protagonist and antagonist, fate, or self.
reversal {denouement, literature}|.
Stories can describe events {flashback}| {retrospect} that happened earlier in time.
Plots have sections {story, plot}. Stories either narrate scenes or summarize periods.
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