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| When the audience knows something that the characters in the drama do not. |
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| A type of poem that meditates on death or mortality in a serious, thoughtful manner. Often use the recent death of a noted person or loved one as a starting point. |
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| The basic techniques of each genre of literature. |
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| - The moment in a novel, play, short story, or narrative poem at which the crisis reaches its greatest point of intensity. It it the height of a story. |
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| Refers to opposition which exists internally in a character or between two characters, two large groups, the protagonist and a larger problem. |
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| The beginning of a drama in which the thematic material is presented. |
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| The final outcome of the main dramatic complication in a literary work. |
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| The part of a narrative work that follows the exposition and leads to the climax. It contains all of the action which builds up to the climax. |
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| The sequence of events which follow the climax and end in the resolution. |
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| The continuation of a syntactic unit from one line or couplet of a poem to the next with no pauses. |
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| A very long narrative poem on a serious theme in a dignified style. Typically deal with glorious or profound subject matter. |
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| Lines that commemorate the dead at their burial place. Usually a line or handful of lines, often serious or religious. |
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| A word or phrase that takes the place of a harsh, unpleasant, or impolite reality. |
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| The result of when sounds blend harmoniously. |
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| To say or write something directly and clearly. |
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| To say or write something that suggests and implies but never says it directly or clearly. |
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| Refers to extremely broad humor; a funny play. |
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| Lines rhymed by their final two syllables. |
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| A secondary character whose purpose is to highlight the characteristics of a main character, usually by contrast. |
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