Which element of plot does this excerpt from "the monkey's paw" best represent?
but her husband was on his hands and knees groping wildly on the floor in search of the paw. if he could only find it before the thing outside got in. a perfect fusillade of knocks reverberated through the house, and he heard the scraping of a chair as his wife put it down in the passage against the door. he heard the creaking of the bolt as it came slowly back, and at the same moment he found the monkey's paw, and frantically breathed his third and last wish.
a. conclusion
b. conflict
c. climax
d. falling action