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| 4926536588 | Aside | words spoken by an actor directly to the audience, which are not "heard" by the actors on stage. | 0 | |
| 4926538546 | Comic Relief | an amusing scene, incident, or speech introduced into serious or tragic elements, as in a play, in order to provide temporary relief from tension, or to intensify the dramatic action. | 1 | |
| 4926544131 | Conflict | opposition in a work of drama or fiction between characters or forces. | 2 | |
| 4926546326 | Denouement | the portion of the plot that reveals the final outcome of its conflicts or solution of its mysteries. | 3 | |
| 4926548866 | Foil | a character who contrasts and parallels the main character in a play or story. | 4 | |
| 4926551865 | Foreshadowing | device a writer uses to hint at a future course of action. | 5 | |
| 4926556149 | Hamartia | tragic flaw; a defect in the character of the protagonist of a tragedy that brings about his or her downfall. | 6 | |
| 4926558022 | Hubris or Hybris | great pride that brings about the downfall of a character in a Greek drama or in other works of literature. | 7 | |
| 4926561196 | Melodrama | literary works of film that uses maudlin sedimentary and sterotypical characters. | 8 | |
| 4926566925 | Soliloquy | recitations in a play in which a character reveals his thoughts to the audience but not to other characters in the play. | 9 | |
| 4926569944 | Tragedy | a type of drama in which the characters experience reversals of fortune, usually for the worse. | 10 | |
| 4926571785 | Tragic Flaw | a weakness or a limitation of character, resulting in the flaw of the tragic hero. | 11 | |
| 4926574682 | Tragic Hero | a privileged, exalted character of high repute, who, by virtue of a tragic flaw and fate, suffers a fall from glory into suffering. | 12 | |
| 4926579281 | Inversion | changing of the usual order of words for emphasis. | 13 | |
| 4926580731 | Dramatic Irony | theater; irony that occurs when the meeting of the situation is understood by the audience but not by the characters in the play. | 14 | |
| 4926583061 | Metaphor | comparing one thing to an unlike thing without using like, as, or than. | 15 |
