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| 7277794201 | Act | A major division in a play. Often, individual acts are divided into smaller units ("scenes") that all take place in a specific location | 0 | |
| 7277825239 | Antagonist | the character against whom the protagonist struggles or contends | 1 | |
| 7277834016 | Aside | a few words or a short passage spoken by one character to the audience while the other actors on stage pretend their characters cannot hear the speaker's words | 2 | |
| 7277841429 | Catastrophe | The "turning downward" of the plot in a classical tragedy. Usually occurs in the fourth act of the play after the climax | 3 | |
| 7277850463 | Catharsis | An emotional discharge that brings about a moral or spiritual renewal or welcome relief from tension and anxiety. | 4 | |
| 7277852687 | Character | Any representation of an individual being presented in a dramatic or narrative work through extended dramatic or verbal representation | 5 | |
| 7277859261 | Dynamic Character | one whose personality changes or evolves over the course of a narrative or appears to have the capacity for such change | 6 | |
| 7277868078 | Flat Character | a character who serves a specific or minor literary function in a text | 7 | |
| 7277870397 | Static Character | A static character is a simplified character who does not change or alter his or her personality over the course of a narrative (also called flat) | 8 | |
| 7277880898 | Stock Character | A character type that appears repeatedly in a particular literary genre, one with certain conventional attributes or attitudes | 9 | |
| 7277894088 | Climax | The moment in a play, novel, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its point of greatest intensity and is thereafter resolved | 10 | |
| 7277898737 | Comedy | the original meaning of the word, comedy referred to a genre of drama during the Dionysia festivals of ancient Athens | 11 | |
| 7277911731 | Comic relief | A humorous scene, incident, character, or bit of dialogue occurring after some serious, tragic, or frightening moment. | 12 | |
| 7277915249 | Conflict | The opposition between two characters (such as a protagonist and an antagonist), between two large groups of people, or between the protagonist and a larger problem such as forces of nature, ideas, public mores, and so on. Conflict may also be completely internal, such as the protagonist struggling with his psychological tendencies | 13 | |
| 7277922088 | Denouement | meaning "unknotting" or "unwinding," denouement refers to the outcome or result of a complex situation or sequence of events, an aftermath or resolution that usually occurs near the final stages of the plot | 14 | |
| 7277930829 | Epilogue | A conclusion added to a literary work such as a novel, play, or long poem | 15 | |
| 7277932960 | Exposition | The use of authorial discussion to explain or summarize background material rather than revealing this information through gradual narrative detail | 16 | |
| 7277936006 | Falling action | the part of a literary plot that occurs after the climax has been reached and the conflict has been resolved | 17 | |
| 7277944162 | Foil | In fiction, a character who contrasts with another character —usually the protagonist— in order to highlight particular qualities of the other character | 18 | |
| 7277950314 | Hero | a person or main character of a literary work who, in the face of danger, combats adversity through impressive feats of ingenuity, bravery or strength, often sacrificing their own personal concerns for a greater good | 19 | |
| 7277953744 | Hubris | is extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall | 20 | |
| 7277957245 | Monologue | which is the speech or verbal presentation that a single character presents in order to express his/her collection of thoughts and ideas aloud | 21 | |
| 7277963089 | Prologue | an opening of a story that establishes the setting and gives background details | 22 | |
| 7277968736 | Protagonist | the central character or leading figure in poetry, narrative, novel or any other story (also called the hero) | 23 | |
| 7277973177 | Rising Action | includes all decisions, characters' flaws and background circumstances that together create turns and twists leading to a climax. | 24 | |
| 7277982833 | Scene | one of the subdivisions of a play: division of an act presenting continuous action in one place | 25 | |
| 7277992618 | Soliloquy | often used in drama when a character speaks to himself or herself, relating thoughts and feelings, thereby also sharing them with the audience, giving off the illusion of being a series of unspoken reflections. | 26 | |
| 7277995752 | Tragedy | branch of drama that treats in a serious and dignified style the sorrowful or terrible events encountered or caused by a heroic individual | 27 | |
| 7277999769 | Tragic flaw | a trait in a character leading to his downfall and the character is often the hero of the literary piece | 28 | |
| 7278003407 | Villain | A versatile genre of poetry consisting of nineteen lines--five tercets and a concluding quatrain | 29 | |
| 7279487544 | Allusion | a brief and indirect reference to a person, place, thing or idea of historical, cultural, literary or political significance | 30 | |
| 7279491015 | Apostrophe | used when a speaker directly addresses someone or something that isn't present in the poem | 31 | |
| 7279493250 | Euphemism | polite, indirect expressions which replace words and phrases considered harsh and impolite or which suggest something unpleasant | 32 | |
| 7279497925 | Metaphor | a figure of speech that makes an implicit, implied, or hidden comparison between two things that are unrelated, but which share some common characteristics | 33 | |
| 7279502740 | Onomatopoeia | a word, which imitates the natural sounds of a thing. It creates a sound effect that mimics the thing described, making the description more expressive and interesting | 34 | |
| 7279505359 | Personification | a figure of speech in which a thing - an idea or an animal - is given human attributes | 35 | |
| 7279507969 | Simile | a figure of speech that makes a comparison, showing similarities between two different things | 36 | |
| 7279509550 | Symbol | A figure of speech where an object, person, or situation has another meaning other than its literal meaning | 37 | |
| 7279512585 | Synecdoche | a part of something represents the whole or it may use a whole to represent a part | 38 | |
| 7279517883 | Understatement | a figure of speech employed by writers or speakers to intentionally make a situation seem less important than it really is | 39 |
