Pitch Dictionary by pitch.dog
Plot structure & turning points · Working

Call to adventure

Also called: call

ELI5

The event or invitation that draws a main character toward the central journey or challenge.

Used in conversation

“The pitch names the call to adventure, but the story still needs to prove it.”

Definition

The event or invitation that draws a protagonist toward the central journey or challenge.

Here “Call to adventure” means: The event or invitation that draws a protagonist toward the central journey or challenge.

Pitch context

You may encounter “Call to adventure” in story, structure & screenplay conversations or materials.

Why it matters: Helps describe how a story works on the page and how its dramatic parts fit together.

Connected terms

  • Refusal of the callComputed from definition language and shared taxonomy. This indicates proximity, not synonymy.
Sources & evidence · 4

Supporting source families. This entry is an editorial synthesis rather than a quotation from one canonical glossary.