There’s a lot one could write about Galileo, the Italian astronomer and physicist. But on a snowy Friday morning in December, during a lesson helping students draft essays about outer space, teacher ...

The five-act structure is a plot formula that divides a story into five sections: the exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and resolution. From these classical explorations comes our ...

Rising action is the piece of a story that leads up to the most exciting part—the climax. It consists of: Rising action in a plot follows the exposition and is instigated by the inciting incident.