The genre of the novel, Kane Chronicles: The Serpent’s Shadow by Rick Riordan was a mythological fiction, and the exposition began when Sadie and Carter entered the museum in Texas. When they entered, they saw their trainees horsing around. Walt was looking through the amulets, Felix was playing with the penguins he summoned, and Alyssa was climbing a shabti. After the author exposed the reader to important background information in the exposition, the inciting incident ignited the rising action to begin. The inciting incident began when Sadie told them to stop, the museum shook, and Apophis made every magical item in the room turn against the magicians. Following the inciting incident, the rising action of the plot thickened as the main
