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| A pair of end-rhyming consecutive lines of poetry. |
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| A hint of what is to come. |
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| Two contradictory words or phrases in one. |
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| Something that happens in the story, accident or otherwise, that makes matters worse. |
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| Something that happens in the story totally by chance that changes the course of the plot. |
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| A little bit of levity in a serious situation to ease the tension of the audience. |
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| A speech in which a character speaks alone on stage and reveals his or her inner thought. No one else can hear it. It is always a true statement. |
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| Something in the character's personality that causes his/her downfall |
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| When the audience and perhaps one or two characters are aware of something that the other characters are not aware of. |
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