Freytag’s Pyramid
Dramatic structure is the structure of a dramatic work such as a book, play, or film. There are different kinds of dramatic structures worldwide which have been hypothesized by critics, writers and scholars alike over time. This article covers the range of dramatic structures from around the world. How the acts are structured, what the center of the story is supposed to be about widely varies by region and time period.
Freytag’s pyramid
The German playwright and novelist Gustav Freytag wrote Die Technik des Dramas, a definitive study of the five-act dramatic structure, in which he laid out what has come to be known as Freytag’s pyramid. Under Freytag’s pyramid, the plot of a story consists of five parts:
- Exposition (originally called introduction)
- Rising action (rise)
- Climax
- Falling action (return or fall)
- Catastrophe, denouement, resolution, or revelation or «rising and sinking». Freytag is indifferent as to which of the contending parties justice favors; in both groups, good and evil, power and weakness, are mingled.
Source https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dramatic_structure
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