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| 3275044827 | Anagnorisis | a moment in a play or other work when a character makes a critical discovery | 0 | |
| 3275048901 | Catharsis | an emotional discharge through which one can achieve a state of moral or spiritual renewal or achieve a state of liberation from anxiety and stress | 1 | |
| 3275052700 | Deus ex machina | the circumstance where an implausible concept or a divine character is introduced into a storyline for the purpose of resolving its conflict and procuring an interesting outcome | 2 | |
| 3275056992 | Hamartia | a personal error in a protagonist's personality that brings about his tragic downfall in a tragedy | 3 | |
| 3275063005 | Hubris | extreme pride and arrogance shown by a character that ultimately brings about his downfall | 4 | |
| 3275070372 | Choragus | 5 | ||
| 3275121830 | Peripeteia | the sudden reversal of fortune in a story, play, or any narrative in which there is an observable change in direction | 6 | |
| 3275170205 | Protagonist | the main character in a work, on whom the author focuses most of the narrative attention | 7 | |
| 3275174231 | Antagonist | the adversary of the hero or protagonist of a drama or other literary work | 8 | |
| 3275181829 | Foil | a character that serves by contrast to highlight or emphasize opposing traits in another character | 9 | |
| 3275189235 | Stock Characters | a character type that appears repeatedly in a particular literary genre, one with certain conventional attributes or attitudes | 10 | |
| 3275212718 | Aside | in drama, 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 | 11 | |
| 3275212719 | Soliloquy | a monologue spoken by an actor at a point in the play when the character believes himself to be alone | 12 | |
| 3275217982 | Shared Lines | when a line is divided between two or more characters | 13 | |
| 3275225128 | Feminine Meter | 14 | ||
| 3275225129 | Masculine Meter | 15 | ||
| 3275226042 | Blank Verse | unrhymed poetry written in iambic pentameter | 16 | |
| 3275228466 | Iambic Pentameter | a lightly stressed syllable followed by a heavily stressed syllable | 17 | |
| 3275230347 | Comedy | play or narrative poem in which the main characters manage to avert an impending disaster and have a happy ending | 18 | |
| 3275234231 | Drama | a composition in prose or verse presenting, in pantomime and dialogue, a narrative involving conflict between a character or characters and some external or internal force | 19 | |
| 3275239015 | Farce | form of low comedy designed to provoke laughter through highly exaggerated caricatures of people in improbable or silly situations | 20 | |
| 3275241276 | Melodrama | a dramatic form characterized by excessive sentiment, exaggerated emotion, sensational and thrilling action, and an artificially happy ending | 21 | |
| 3275250304 | Play | a specific piece of drama, usually enacted on a stage by diverse actors who often wear makeup or costumes to make them resemble the character they portray | 22 | |
| 3275257818 | Tradegy | a serious play in which the chief character, by some peculiarity of psychology, passes through a series of misfortunes leading to a final, devastating catastrophe | 23 | |
| 3275263623 | Tragic Flaw | another term for the tragic hero's hamartia | 24 | |
| 3275268081 | Dramatic Irony | involves a situation in a narrative in which the reader knows something about present or future circumstances that the character does not know | 25 | |
| 3275274657 | Situational Irony | trope in which accidental events occur that seem oddly appropriate, such as the poetic justice of a pickpocket getting his own pocket picked | 26 | |
| 3275278773 | Verbal Irony | trope in which a speaker makes a statement in which its actual meaning differs sharply from the meaning that the words ostensibly express | 27 |
