Question

How can you tell that this is part of the story's climax?

And how slowly the fuse burned! Why had I not made it shorter? Every moment I expected to feel the sudden jolt which told that the wolves had pulled down one of the horses and that the end had come!


At last the dull red glow had almost reached the end of the cap. A few seconds more and it would explode. Thrusting the bundle hastily into another sack, forgetting even the wolves in my terror lest it should explode in my hands, I threw it with all my force into the midst of the moving
forms abreast of the horses.


-Adapted from "On a Mountain Trail" by Harry Perry Robinson

Group of answer choices

the conflict of the story is revealed

the action begins to slow down

the reader learns what happens to all of the characters

the action reaches its peak

Answer 1

Answer:

The climax in a story is the point, usually near the end of the third act, where the value of the story is tested to its highest degree. As such, it is also the moment in a story with the greatest amount of drama, action, and movement