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| 8634342354 | Act | A major division in the action of the play, comprising one or more scenes. A break between acts often coincides with a point at which the plot jumps ahead in time. | 0 | |
| 8634343811 | Antagonist | the most prominent of the characters who oppose the protagonist or hero in a dramatic work. The antagonist is often a villain. | 1 | |
| 8634344424 | Aside | a short speech or remark spoken by a character in a drama, directed either to the audience or to another character, which by convention is supposed to be inaudible to the other characters on stage. | 2 | |
| 8634348891 | Catastrophe | The final resolution or denouncement of the plot in a tragedy, usually involving the death of the protagonist. | 3 | |
| 8634350269 | Catharsis | The effect of purification achieved by tragic drama, according to Aristotle's argument in his poetics. Unhealthy emotional stimulant. Emotional cleansing. | 4 | |
| 8634353451 | Character (sense 1) | Any of the persons involved in a story. | 5 | |
| 8634353970 | Character (sense 2) | The distinguishing moral qualities and personal traits of character | 6 | |
| 8634355347 | Flat character | Whose character is summed up in one or two traits | 7 | |
| 8634355896 | Round character | Whose character is complex and many-sided | 8 | |
| 8634356521 | Stock character | Whose character is stereotyped | 9 | |
| 8634357070 | Dynamic character | Whose character is changed by the actions in which he or she is involved | 10 | |
| 8634357877 | Static character | A character that remains unchanged or little changed throughout the course of the story | 11 | |
| 8634359549 | Climax | A decisive point in the plot of a play or story, upon which the outcome of the remaining action depends, and which iltimately precipitates the catastrophe or denouncemnt. | 12 | |
| 8634361249 | Comic releif | The interruption of a serious work, esp. a tragedy, by a short humorous episode that relieves emotional tension | 13 | |
| 8634362642 | Conflict | A clash of actions, desires, ideas, or goals in the plot of the story. | 14 | |
| 8634362997 | Crisis | A decisive point in the plot of a play, upon which the outcome of the remaining action depends | 15 | |
| 8634366106 | Denouncement | The portion of a plot that reveals the final outcome of its conflicts or the solution of its mysteries | 16 | |
| 8634366700 | Deus ex machina | The resolution of the plot by use of highly improbable chance, coincidence, or artificial device that solves some difficult problem or crisis. | 17 | |
| 8634368324 | Epilogue | A concluding section of any written work during which the characters' subsequent fates are briefly outlined | 18 | |
| 8634372975 | Exposition | The setting forth of a systematic explanation or or argument about any subject or the opening part of a play or story, in which we are introduced to the characters and their situation , often by reference to the preceding events. | 19 | |
| 8634393872 | Falling action | The segment of the plot tha comes between the climax and the conclusion | 20 | |
| 8634394251 | Foil | A character whose qualities or actions serve to emphasize those of the protagonist by providing a strong contrast with them | 21 | |
| 8634395062 | Hamartia | the Greek word for error or failure, used by Aristotle to designate a false step that leads the protagonist in a tradegy to his or her downfall. | 22 | |
| 8634396864 | Hero or Heroine | The main character in a narrative or dramatic work. The term protagonist is preferable since the leading character may not be morally or otherwise superior. | 23 | |
| 8634398552 | Anti-hero | When our expectations of heroic qualities are strikingly disappointed, the central character may be known as an. | 24 | |
| 8634400455 | Hubris | The greek word for 'insolence' or 'affront', applied to the arrogance or pride of the protagonist in a tragedy in which he or she defies moral laws or the prohibitions of the gods, The protagonist's transgression or hamartia leads eventually to his or her downfall, which may be understood as divine retribution. | 25 | |
| 8634403455 | In medias res | "in the middle of things"; the technique of beginning a story in the middle of the action. | 26 | |
| 8634406305 | Monolouge | An extended speech uttered by one speaker, either to others or as if alone. | 27 | |
| 8634407089 | Narrator | The teller of a story | 28 | |
| 8634407600 | Plot | The careful arrangement by an author of incidents in a narrative to achieve a desired effect, | 29 | |
| 8634408049 | Prolouge | An introductory section of a literary work or an introductory speech in a play. | 30 | |
| 8634410214 | Protagonist | The central character in a story | 31 | |
| 8634410655 | Rising action | The part of the plot that leads through a series of events of increasing interest and power to the climax or turning point. The rising action begins with an inciting moment, an action or event that sets a conflict of opposing forces into motion, and moves through complication(s), an entangling of the affairs of the characters in a conflict, toward the climax, the major crisis that brings about a change in the fortunes of the protagonist. | 32 | |
| 8634413820 | Scene | A subdivision of an act or of a play not divided into acts. A scene normally represents actions happening in one place or at one time, and is marked off from the next scene by a curtain, a black-out, or a brief emptying of the stage. | 33 | |
| 8634415453 | Setting | The general locale, time in history, or social milieu in which the action of a literary owkr takes place. | 34 | |
| 8634416306 | Soliloquy | A dramatic speech uttered by one character speaking aloud while along on stage, or while under the impression of being alone. Reveals character's inner thoughts and feelings to the audience, either in supposed self-communion, or in a consciously direct address, | 35 | |
| 8634417700 | Soliloquist | Reveals his or her inner thoughts and feelings to the audience, either in supposed self-communion, or in a consciously direct address. | 36 | |
| 8634419656 | Stage directions | the info provided in addition to the dialogue to help a reader visualize the setting, characters, and actions. | 37 | |
| 8634420146 | Tragedy | A type of drama in which the protagonist, a person of unusual mora lor intellectual stature or outstanding abilities, suffers a fall in fortune due to some error of judgement or flaw in his or her nature. | 38 | |
| 8634422080 | Tragic flaw | The defect of character that brings about the protagonist's downfall in a tradgy | 39 | |
| 8634422617 | Turning point | the point in the plot where the protagonist's situation changed for the better or the worse, after this the action begins its movement toward a final resolution. | 40 | |
| 8634423884 | Villan | The principal evil character in a play or story. The ____ is usually the antagonist opposed to the protagonist, but in some cases may be the protagonist himself/herself. | 41 |
