Read this excerpt from "one minute longer" by albert payson terhune. a second pistol-shot flew wide. a third grazed the dog’s hip. from all directions people were running towards the station. a man darted into a house next door, and emerged carrying a shotgun. this he steadied on the veranda-rail not forty feet away from the leaping dog, and made ready to fire.

which plot element is represented by the excerpt?
rising action
conflict
falling action
climax