Yusupov Oybek Nematjonovich Ahmedova Nigora Shavkatovna

moments of complications
). 
They become tenser as the plot moves toward the moment of decision — the 
climax. Such a direct scaling upwards in the moments of complications occurs in 
The 
Cop and the Anthem 
by O’Henry. In some stories there may be a good deal of 
fluctuation in intensity among the moments of complications, although the general 
tendency is upward. Each of these moments is related to the theme of the story, the 
message or to the development of characters. 
The third structural component is the 
climax. 
The climax is the key event, the 
crucial moment of the story. It is often referred to as the moment of illumination for 
the whole story, as it is the moment when the relationship among the events becomes 
clear, when their role in the development of characters is clarified, and when the story 
is seen to have a structure. In 
The Cop and the Anthem, 
for example, the climax is 
Soapy's arrest. The 
denouement (or resolution) 
is the fourth structural component or 
the plot. The denouement is the unwinding of the actions: it includes the event, or 
events, in the story immediately following the climax and bringing the actions to an 

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end. It is the point at which the fate of the main character is clarified. The 
denouement suggests to the reader certain crucial conclusions. 
A story may have no denouement. By leaving it out the author achieves a 
certain effect – he invites the reader to reflect on all the circumstances that 
accompanied the character of the story and to imagine the outcome of all the events 
himself. Such is the case m 
The Cop and the Anthem.
The usual order in which the components of plot structure occur is as follows: 
exposition, complications, climax and denouement. Novels may have two more 
components of plot structure: the