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| A story illustrating an idea or a moral principle in which objects take on symbolic meanings |
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| Used for poetic effect, a repitition of the initial sounds of several words in a group |
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| A reference in one literary work to a character or theme found in another literary work. |
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| A person or force which opposes the protagonist in a literary work |
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| A device in which a character in a drama makes a short speech which is heard by the audience but not by other characters in the play |
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| The story of a person's life written by someone other than the subject of the work. |
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| The decisive moment in a drama, the climax is the turning point of the play to which the rising action leads. This is the crucial part of the drama, the part which determines the outcome of the conflict |
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| Also called the Resolution" the conclusion is the point in a drama to which the entire play has been leading. It is the logical outcome of everything that has come before it. The conclusion stems from the nature of the characters |
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| In the plot of a drama, conflict occurs when the protagonist is opposed by some person or force in the play |
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| In drama, a conversation between characters. One interesting type of dialogue, stichomythia, occurs when the dialogue takes the form of a verbal duel between characters |
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