Its also called the turning point and the breaking point.
Impetus. Sometimes called the "Conflict." You might also mean "rising action."
Rising Action, also called the Development, develops the plot and the characters based on what happens in the Inciting Incident. The Falling Action or Crisis develops the plot and characters in relation to a change in the course of the plot sometimes called the Reversal, sometimes referred to as the Technical Climax.
Every step of the problem leads toward the climax. That's called rising action.
The rising action just means all the little things that build up to the high point of the story, which is called the climax.
It is called the rising action
the rising action of this lottery ticket is the rising of the action...
this is called kinetic energy
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what is the rising action and falling action of pocahontes
Rising action
Rising action
The build up of conflict in a short story is called the rising action. This is where the tension and complications in the plot increase, leading to the climax of the story.