What are examples of plot events and the corresponding stage in Freytag's Pyramid?

Answer 1

Exposition-It's 1973, and Maria Duran has moved from Puerto Rico to New York City, where a job awaits her in a garment factory.

Rising action-When she arrives in New York, she discovers that the garment factory is little more than a slave-labor sweatshop. She quits, but is unable to find work. She stays with a friend, but when the friend returns to Puerto Rico, she cannot pay the rent and faces life on the streets.

Climax-After two months of living on the streets, facing physical danger and near starvation, she discovers a wad of 100-dollar bills on the body of a drug dealer she stumbles upon in a back alley. She is able to purchase a flight back to Puerto Rico.

Falling action-As her plane approaches San Juan, her heart swells with she wonders why she ever wanted to leave the island.

Denouement-Her family meets her at the airport and they drive home together.

Exposition A king, reaching old age, abdicates his throne and plans to divide his kingdom among his three daughters.

Rising action The king, hurt by his favorite daughter's refusal to flatter him, passes her over, and the kingdom is divided between the other two sisters. The two sisters, craving power, cast out the former king into the wild. The kingdom is threatened when the sisters struggle against each other.

Climax The favorite daughter raises an army, but is conquered by her sisters. She is hanged. Meanwhile, one sister murders the other, then poisons herself.

Falling action Holding the body of his favorite daughter, the former king mourns her loss and realizes his earlier folly.

Denouement The kingdom is taken over by the husband of one of the quarreling sisters.

ExpositionThe setting and characters are introduced; the stage is set for the conflict.

Rising actionEvents occur that heighten the tensions associated with the main conflict.

ClimaxThe main conflict is resolved.

Falling actionThe tension decreases in anticipation of the end of the story.

DenouementLoose ends are tied up and order restored to the world inhabited by the characters.

Answer 2

Here is how the events in Oedipus Rex match with the plot stages of Freytag's Pyramid:

Exposition - Oedipus hears the complaints of the priests.

Inciting Incident - Creon says that Laius's murderer must be found in order to lift the

plague.

Climax - Oedipus realizes he has married his mother and murdered his father.

Denouement - Oedipus is exiled.