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| one who opposes the protagonist |
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| the prevailing tone or mood of a story |
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| unrhymed verse, esp. the unrhymed iambic pentameter |
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| the purging of the emotions or relieving of emotional tensions |
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| features or traits of a person |
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portrayal; description
example: the actor's characterization of a politician |
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| the highest or most intense point in the development of something |
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| something that introduces, usually unexpectedly, some difficulty, problem, change, etc |
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| a struggle or clash between opposing forces |
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a rule or practice based upon general consent and upheld by society at large
example: a light bulb appearing above the head of a comic book character means the character suddenly got an idea |
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| a pair of successive lines of verse, esp. a pair that rhyme and are of the same length |
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| a stage in a sequence of events at which the trend of all future events, esp. for better or for worse, is determined; turning point |
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| the act or art of analyzing and evaluating or judging the quality of a literary or artistic work |
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| the final clarification or resolution of a plot in a play or other work |
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| any artificial or improbable device resolving the difficulties of a plot; (in ancient Greek and Roman drama) a god introduced into a play to resolve the entanglements of the plot |
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| a conversation between characters |
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| a work to be performed by actors on stage, radio, or television; play |
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| the audience knows more than the characters in the play, so that words and action have additional meaning for the audience |
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| analysis or interpretation |
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| dialogue, description, etc., that gives the audience or reader the background of the characters and the present situation |
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| prose narrative based on imagination, usually the novel or the short story |
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