Short story plots usually have five specific elements, the exposition (which reveals the conflict), the rising action, the climax, the falling action and the resolution. The falling action of a story contains those events which take place just after the climax, which is considered the highest point of interest in a story. In Guy de Maupassant's "The Necklace," the climax occurs when Loisel and his wife discover the borrowed necklace is lost....
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