Narrative exposition, or simply exposition, is the insertion of important background information within a story; for example, information about the setting, characters' backstories, prior plot events, historical context, etc.
In the rising action, a series of events build toward the point of greatest interest. The rising action of a story is the series of events that begin immediately after the exposition (introduction) of the story and builds up to the climax.
Climax is a structural part of a plot and is at times referred to as a crisis. It is a decisive moment or a turning point in a storyline at which the rising action turns around into a falling action.
Falling action is defined as the parts of a story after the climax and before the very end. An example of falling action is act four in a five-act play.
resolution(aka the conclusion)In the conclusion of a narrative essay, you impart your takeaway message, a lesson or a reflection -- a new discovery of meaning in life -- to your reader. A narrative essay is one of the many rhetorical modes in writing, such as description, comparison and contrast, definition, argument, evaluation, illustration, classification, cause and effect, process and analysis. But, for the conclusion to work, all parts of the narrative essay must build toward it.