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The three acts are Setup (introduction of characters, world, and conflict), Confrontation (rising action, complications, and midpoint), and Resolution (climax and denouement).
Freytag's Pyramid is a dramatic structure model with five parts: exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, and dénouement (resolution).
The inciting incident is the event that disrupts the protagonist's ordinary world and sets the main conflict in motion, typically occurring in Act One.
The stages are: Ordinary World, Call to Adventure, Refusal of the Call, Meeting the Mentor, Crossing the Threshold, Tests/Allies/Enemies, Approach to the Inmost Cave, Ordeal, Reward, The Road Back, Resurrection, and Return with the Elixir.
The mentor provides the hero with guidance, training, or a gift that prepares them for the challenges ahead — e.g., Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings.