To build tension
Inciting incident
The Inciting Incident. It goes: Exposition, Inciting Incident, Rising Action, Climax, Falling Action, Resolution, Denouement. (Haha wow, I never thought I'd ever use that kind of thing from school)
Sobel is angered by Feld’s offer to Max.
Inciting Incident: * The conflict that begins the action of the story and causes the protagonist to act *Without this event, there would be no story. Also, it is better described as the State of Imperfection made explicit.
Once the Exposition has come to an end, the Inciting Incident begins the forward movement of the plot.
The term "inciting incident" is a noun. It refers to the event in a story that sets the main plot into motion and creates conflict or tension.
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You need the inciting incident early in the story, so usually in the exposition or rising action.
An example of an inciting incident in "The Giver" is when Jonas is chosen to be the Receiver of Memory during the Ceremony of Twelve. This event sets the stage for the story by disrupting the normal order of the community and propelling Jonas into a new role that challenges his understanding of the world he lives in.
it is when squeaky went to race
the shark bit her arm
To build tension
The pestilence is the inciting incident in "Oedipus Rex" by Sophocles (495 B.C.E. - 405 B.C.E.).Specifically, the inciting incident describes the event that triggers all subsequent happenings in the play. It therefore is the pestilence with which Oedipus, the priest of Zeus and the suppliants are concerned when the play opens. The characters spend the rest of the play finding the cause and carrying out the solution to bad harvests, declining populations and dying livestock. Without the inciting incident of the pestilence, there in fact will be no story.
It is the event that sets in motion the central conflict of the story.
to introduce the central conflict early in the story
Inciting incident