What are a "crisis" and a "climax" in Sargent's 1916 Chapter XIV, where does the climax fall, and what should come after it?
1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XIV): a crisis is the peak of a moment of suspense; a climax is the termination of the suspense and the accomplishment of the object. The climax is the story's greatest moment and should be at the end: end the story when the climax ends suspense; what follows is falling action that tires. He says this differs from stage teaching and is closer to the one-act play. If a smaller event would end suspense earlier (Joe/Jane), he says to find something that prolongs it, and the earlier climax becomes a crisis. The firecracker is an illustration; no film example or data.
1916 practice (Sargent, Ch. XIV): a crisis is the peak of a moment of suspense; a climax is the termination of the suspense and the accomplishment of the object. The climax is the story's greatest moment and should be at the end: end the story when the climax ends suspense; what follows is falling action that tires. He says this differs from stage teaching and is closer to the one-act play. If a smaller event would end suspense earlier (Joe/Jane), he says to find something that prolongs it, and the earlier climax becomes a crisis. The firecracker is an illustration; no film example or data.
Curator qualifications: Struggle/suspense/crisis/climax/anti-climax rules verified as Sargent claims, with examples labelled; relayed Aristotle/Phillips/Archer comparison is by candidate ID (relayed rows, not re-read); -07 agent check and L10 experiment are proposals, untested.
Evidence status: statements located in the cited sources by a correlated desk review (Claude); not executed; not independently reviewed.
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