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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
...’s pyramid A sequence of five structural phases in a drama : introduction , rising action , climax , falling action , and catastrophe . Compare classical narrative structure . ...
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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
...of shots or scenes that have been edited together: see also montage . 2. (semiotics) A temporal syntagm . 3. (narratology) A series of related events or propositions , or the overall narrative structure: see also classical narrative structure ; Freytag’s pyramid . ...
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A Dictionary of Media and Communication (3 ed.)
...1. A moment in a narrative when the conflict and tension peak for the audience . Often synonymous with crisis . 2. The third phase of dramatic structure in Freytag’s pyramid . 3. ( climax order ) A sequential argument in which the last point is the most important and forceful (the opposite being anticlimax order ). 4. In rhetoric , successive phrases building upon a previous one: e.g. King’s cumulative use of ‘I have a dream’. ...
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The Companion to Theatre and Performance
...A decisive moment, or turning point, in a dramatic *action . In the late nineteenth century Gustav Freytag identified a traditional five-part pyramidal dramatic structure with a climax at the apex, and three crises: an initiating action that precipitates the complication, an action that ends the climax and initiates the *denouement , and an action that brings about the *catastrophe . It has become more common to recognize Freytag's climax as the central crisis, and to use ‘climax’ to refer to the highest point of *audience interest, which may or may...
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Ronald W. Vince
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance
...A decisive moment, or turning point, in a dramatic action . In the late nineteenth century Gustav Freytag identified a traditional five-part pyramidal dramatic structure with a climax at the apex, and three crises: an initiating action that precipitates the complication , and action that ends the climax and initiates the denouement , and an action that brings about the catastrophe . It has become more common to recognize Freytag's climax as the central crisis, and to use ‘climax’ to refer to the highest point of audience interest, which may or...
Freytag, Gustav Reference library
The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre (2 ed.)
..., Gustav ( 1816–95 ), German writer who, although best known as the author of sociological and historical novels, began his literary career as a dramatist, and became the German exponent of the well-made play . His best work was a comedy, Die Journalisten ( 1852 ), a good-humoured portrayal of party politics in a small town during an election; his attempts at serious problem-plays and a historical tragedy in verse are less attractive. In 1863 he published his Technik des Dramas , with its famous pyramid, or diagrammatic plot, of a ‘well-made’...
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M. L. Manson
The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics (4 ed.)
...Hoskyns explains that it concludes gradatio with a clause containing the first and last rungs. Puttenham’s example of gradatio would thus end: “therefore, his virtue brought him abundant aid .” In 1863 , Freytag borrowed the term climax to describe the apex of the rising action in a drama, the third of a five-part structure called Freytag’s pyramid. He made climax, which describes the audience’s interest, synonymous with crisis, the structural turning point of the drama, but the term has since been applied more loosely to any peak in audience interest....
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Elizabeth Belfiore, Ronna Burger, Stephen Halliwell, Richard Janko, and Leon Golden
Encyclopedia of Aesthetics (2 ed.)
...a “tragic flaw” is based on a very questionable interpretation of hamartia . The pyramid, often drawn on classroom blackboards, of action rising to a climax and falling to a catastrophe is often associated with Aristotle’s distinction between complication and resolution. However, Aristotle does not mention a dramatic climax, and he has no concept of rising and falling action. The pyramid is derived from Gustave Freytag’s imaginative adaptation of Aristotle (trans., Freytag’s Technique of the Drama , New York, 1894 ). “Catharsis” is commonly used today to...
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Encyclopedia of Aesthetics
...a “tragic flaw” is based on a very questionable interpretation of hamartia . The pyramid, drawn on many a high-school blackboard, of action rising to a climax and falling to a catastrophe is often associated with Aristotle's distinction between complication and resolution. However, Aristotle does not mention a dramatic climax, and he has no concept of rising and falling action. The pyramid is derived from Gustave Freytag 's imaginative adaptation of Aristotle (trans., Freytag's Technique of the Drama , New York, 1894 ). Catharsis is commonly used today to...
