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| 5412358122 | Anagnorisis | the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his or her or some other character's true identity or discovers the true nature of his or her own situation. | 0 | |
| 5412363575 | Catharsis | the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions, especially through certain kinds of art, as tragedy or music. | 1 | |
| 5412367155 | Deus ex machina | "god from the machine" an unexpected power or event saving a seemingly hopeless situation, especially as a contrived plot device in a play or novel. | 2 | |
| 5412371279 | Hamartia | a fatal flaw leading to the downfall of a tragic hero or heroine | 3 | |
| 5412373427 | Chorus/Choragus | an ode or series of odes sung by a group of actors in ancient Greek drama. The group of actors that performed the chorus and served as major participants in, commentators on, or as a supplement to the main action of the drama. | 4 | |
| 5412381749 | Peripeteia | a sudden reversal of fortune or change in circumstances, especially in reference to fictional narrative | 5 | |
| 5412384558 | Protagonist | the leading character or one of the major characters in a drama, movie, novel, or other fictional text | 6 | |
| 5412386616 | antagonist | a character or force against which another character struggles. | 7 | |
| 5412388395 | Foil | a character that shows qualities that are in contrast with the qualities of another character with the objective to highlight the traits of the other character. | 8 | |
| 5412391588 | Stock characters | a stock character is a stereotypical person whom audiences readily recognize from frequent recurrences in a particular literary tradition | 9 | |
| 5412395287 | Aside | a remark or passage by a character in a play that is intended to be heard by the audience buy unheard by the other characters in the play | 10 | |
| 5412398189 | Soliloquy | an act of speaking one's thoughts aloud when by oneself or regardless of any hearers, especially by a character in a play | 11 | |
| 5412400787 | Shared lines | a technique in verse drama in which sequences of single alternating lines, or half-lines or two-line speeches are given to alternating characters. | 12 | |
| 5412404371 | Feminine meter | a line of verse that ends with an unstressed syllable | 13 | |
| 5412406736 | Masculine meter | rhymes that end with a heavy stress on the last syllable in each rhyming word | 14 | |
| 5412408052 | Blank verse | poetry written in regular metrical but unrhymed lines, almost always iambic pentameters. | 15 | |
| 5412410425 | Comedy | a play, movie, etc., of light and humorous character with a happy or cheerful ending; a dramatic work in which the central motif is the triumph over adverse circumstance, resulting in a successful or happy conclusion | 16 | |
| 5412415638 | Drama | a composition in prose or verse presenting in dialogue or pantomime a story involving conflict or contrast of character, especially one intended to be acted on the stage | 17 | |
| 5412419057 | Farce | a comic dramatic work using buffoonery and horseplay and typically including crude characterization and ludicrously improbable situations | 18 | |
| 5412421891 | melodrama | a sensational dramatic piece with exaggerated characters and exciting events intended to appeal to the emotions | 19 | |
| 5412424739 | play | a dramatic composition or piece; drama | 20 | |
| 5412425844 | tragedy | a play dealing with tragic events and having an unhappy ending, especially one concerning the downfall of the main character | 21 | |
| 5412428438 | tragic flaw | a literary device that can be defined as a trait in a character leading to his downfall and the character is often the hero of the literary piece | 22 | |
| 5412431856 | Dramatic irony | a literary technique, originally used in Greek tragedy, by which the full significance of character's word or actions are clear to the audience or reader although unknown to the character. | 23 | |
| 5412438922 | situational irony | actions have an effect that is opposite from what was intended, so that the outcome is contrary to what was expected | 24 | |
| 5412442354 | verbal irony | a person says or writes one thing and means another, or uses word to convey a meaning that is the opposite of the literal meaning. | 25 | |
| 5412448932 | Hubris | excessive pride or self-confidence | 26 |
