There are five common parts of a plot that you can normally recognize when reading a book or story: the exposition, the rising action, the climax, the falling action, and the resolution. The exposition is how the story starts and how the main characters are normally introduced. In the first Skulduggery Pleasant book, written by Derek Landy, the exposition starts with the main character, Stephanie, attending her uncles funeral and inheriting his estate. The rising action normally takes up the majority of the book, sometimes even 80% of the book. It is strongly signaled in Skulduggery because a mercenary tries to kill Stephanie. This leads to the rest of the story, which uses much detective work. The climax eventually happens when the main bad guy, Nefarian Serpine, collects a magical weapon and uses it to invade the good guys main base. The falling action is where everything calms down and finds it’s place after the climax. This is usually short, only being one or two chapters, but the Skulduggery book didn’t even have one, it just jumped into the resolution, which is where everything ends, usually having an inspirational quote if it’s a single book, or revelation if it’s a series. In the first Skulduggery there was a revelation, which was that (spoiler alert!) the main character could do magic.
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